A Field Guide To Butterflies

The Blue Morpho butterfly does not eat food
but drinks the nectar of rotting fruit; 
it lives about 15 days.
I have lived 3 years past the life expectancy of a woman in Haiti.
Put down your newspaper, set aside the book, come with me.
I’ll drop pomegranate seeds in your mouth one by one;
and for an hour or so, we’ll make death wait,
not concern ourselves with longing and loss.