Showing posts with label Question Mark butterfly. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Question Mark butterfly. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Let the Rumpus Begin!

Shakerag's spring has sprung! One Question Mark and one Mourning Cloak butterfly flitting and lighting, numerous no-see-ums stirring the leaf litter, and wildflowers poking up everywhere!

Monday, October 21, 2013

I Stopped Counting

at a dozen. 

At Lake Dimmick, 
Question Marks 
flew, sunned, folded and unfolded wings, 
flitted like leaves 
scattered and scattering 
on gravel, sand, and grass. 
Perhaps many just emerged. 
A number looked fresh, bright, whole, 
but others' wings were already bitten and torn.
The Internet says to call
a group of butterflies 
a swarm, 
a colony,
a rabble, 
a flight, 
a kaleidoscope, 
a cloud.
Polygonia interrogationis:
I have no question,
only this exclamation:
O frabjous day!