by Mary E. Lowd
Like fish in a school
These butterflies travel
Floating and fluttering
In tight formation Continue reading “The Butterfly Dragon”
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The Butterfly Ship
by Mary E. Lowd
Nature’s patterns
Applied in abstract terms
To the structures we build Continue reading “The Butterfly Ship”
Butterfly Station
by Mary E. Lowd
A space station designed
To be hospitable
To butterflies
Keeping their needs in mind Continue reading “Butterfly Station”
The Meaningful Butterfly
by Mary E. Lowd
Chase meaning
Like a butterfly catcher
With a net
And you’ll only catch
Exoskeletons, bereft Continue reading “The Meaningful Butterfly”
The Inscrutable Butterfly
by Mary E. Lowd
Poetry or mathematical equations?
The universe’s calculations
Encoded into genetic material
Recording something ethereal Continue reading “The Inscrutable Butterfly”
The Poetic Butterfly
by Mary E. Lowd
Poetry inscribed
On a butterfly’s wings
Indecipherable
Ancient, untraceable Continue reading “The Poetic Butterfly”
The Universe Butterfly
by Mary E. Lowd
The universe is
A pattern drawn
On a butterfly’s wings
Cat Wants
by Mary E. Lowd
Cat wants fish
Cat sees;
Cat wants—
Fish, fish, fish
The Fox and Their Friend
by Mary E. Lowd
One from Earth, the other not
Their friendship crosses
Boundaries of space
Time, gravity, vacuum, society Continue reading “The Fox and Their Friend”
The Fox and the Alien
by Mary E. Lowd
Green and shimmery
Strange and glimmery
This fox has never met before
Someone both so different and…
Yet, similar Continue reading “The Fox and the Alien”