Life continues

Expansive lawn luxuriates, bright and shadowed and flowered 

under lowing majestic willows.

Shadows touch the massive timber planter

bathed warm in humid late afternoon sun.

There -- on a willow twig something flutters;

then something else, unafraid, within reach, then there and there!

Flutterings all around, on willow branches and in gardens

Then flutters come alive, flitting and flashing… monarch butterflies.

Stunning, by dozens, in sun sliced shade,

riotous colors surrounding, silently shouting, 

flashing and floating, and living and loving,

together, oblivious to others, they dance and lilt.

Resting, on their migration south. 

Regal gram-weight travelers driven to move south

To Mexico and their whole species wintering ground.

Resting now; then, urged on by millennia and generations untold,

follow the sun; follow their compass, 

in ways miraculous -- ungleaned by us -- they find their way home.

Fare well. 

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