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Tuesday 12 May 2009

Eighty Degrees




http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8e/Haeckel_Trochilidae.jpg




white butterfly
dancing albino speck
tiny hanky
scarfs
the swiss chard
there in the entero-system I imagine it cool
Switzerland!
pale sweet pea snows
wild radish lakes
CABBAGE MOTH
on a day like this your thirst is easy to identify with
at five o’clock
eighty degrees of
wild July fire-and-jewel spectrum
humming bird
goat bell
bluejay feather etc.
but what about the other
"real"
butterflies
the regal monarchs?
what about the frogs?

They’re back in muddy February
“in mothballs”



http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/63/Ensifera_ensifera.jpg






Trochilidae (hummingbirds): from Ernst Haeckel: Kunstformen der Natur, 1901

Ensifera ensifera (detail): Ibid.

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