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Monday 20 June 2011

80°


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Large White butterfly (Pieris brassicae): photo by Alvesgaspar, May 2008






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

.....what about the frogs?

They’re back in muddy February


.......................................“in mothballs”





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Small White butterflies (Pieris rapae cucivora), mating, Minuma-ku, Saitama City, Saitama Prefecture, Japan: photo by Masaki Ikeda, 28 September 2009


TC: 80°, Bolinas, 1969; from Air, 1970

3 comments:

Scott Keeney said...

Fifteen hundred
humming feathers fly—
oh snap!

TC said...

Beautiful, that's it exactly.

Would that we were so quick.

Terrific to hear from you.

Scott Keeney said...

I love it here. Juggernaut. Treasure. Be well.