Icelandic Butterflies

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  THIS IS YOUR ANIMAL

                                                  for Frances & Jon on their wedding day

  Ahmic Lake – July 28, 2012

   

   

   And while it may not appear in an Audobon sketch

  or bare it’s teeth in the pages of an encyclopedia, or sit still

  long enough for those in lab coats to observe its behavior, or decipher

  the unique language that it speaks (for it speaks)

   

  And while it may, at times, appear to lie dormant,

  having wandered off independently into the feathered

  green. Along a water’s edge. Guided by a distant dream.

  Toward that blue beneath the blue.

   

  This animal, of which I speak, of which you two, together,

  impart, & give rise to –

   

  It is of your making. It is of your making alone.

   

  That is, this is: YOUR ANIMAL

   

  And here, in this place, let us witness it breathing, let us celebrate

  on these rocks it’s gathering into being

  —a journey’s beginning—

  & let it impress upon us the very signs of its presence:

   

   

  a dazzling of light in a spontaneous ripple,

  water’s melodious lapping of an otherwise silent shore,

   

   

  A sunset threading itself singly

  through a company of hearts.

   

   Wind in the trees.

   

   -LF

  5 Aug 2012 / 9 notes