Butterfly Child
Breeze is gentle over a path dappled in sunshine
as child runs around the garden no sense of mischief
chases a butterfly flitting by capricious as the wind.
Now she stands very quiet and still,
as if caught in the split second of a near-trance,
butterfly ceases its flight to perch on her nose.
Child and butterfly - alike in a separate attentiveness,
balanced and held in equilibrium by a nip of nature,
an eternity snatched in a rare and precious moment.
@jjote 0816/2015
Copyright © Josefina Costales | Year Posted 2015
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