There are those who pinion wings
to velvet mounting-boards with pins,
the better to admire their colours
glowing lifeless under glass,
immobilised on walls,
adorning cabinets de voyeur -
trophies of a passion
for "la chasse".
I prefer to take my chances,
waiting where the grass grows tall,
or glimpsing them in motion
in a garden or a park,
contemplating wings at work,
transmitting flitting semaphore
in colour's vivid syllables
to creatures of ephemera:
other lepidoptera,
and petalled flora,
people, Earth…
Wings at work
© Copyright: Jena Woodhouse, 2005
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