Milkweeds burst in bloom/ Await Monarchs migration/ Long for Autumn's chill © Nancilynn Saylor14 October 2017
Tag: butterflies
Poem for a Zebra Long wing
I watch you dip and fly dancing, leaf to leaf, taking ease any place you land- eluding my lens as if I mean to steal your soul. Your visage burns into my memory I have no designs on your soul- just an image to sustain me through winter’s coming chill. © Nancilynn Saylor Photo of […]
Butterflies
Scattered throughout my yard are vines and plants suitable for feeding visiting butterflies. In some years I have nearly no Passion Vine flowers or Milkweed. This year, I have lots of flowers and seeing butterflies are more rare. As we do not poison our land I suspect the culprits responsible are elsewhere in the […]
Inner turmoil
Time races forward towards June. Soon it will be here, the worst month of each year when my Pied Piper answered a whispered call, he could or would- not turn down… I feel anxiety stretching taut over me head to toe over me like the five tiny kittens I once saw swaddled in plastic and tucked in […]
