Releasing Butterflies
By Steven Withrow
Something seamy and unseemly in the name
they carry, painted ladies, pins a sordid shame
in fore- and hindwing, but its sting recedes in flight,
for they are dazzlers as they grab the air, these brightly
spotted Cynthias of a genus called Vanessa:
you laugh to draw the last, and dub her Iridessa.
©2011 Steven Withrow, all rights reserved
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