ILLUSTRATIONS BY HEATHER GRAHAM
A white butterfly
with black wing-eyes
squeezed
shining wet eggs
exquisitely
one by one
from her body lozenge
Now
mock-orange leaves
wear
miniscule pearls,
luminescent microcosms
of butterfly seed.
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