The Butterfly
those things
which you so laughingly call
hands are in fact two
brown butterflies fluttering
across the pleasure
they give
my body
[21 feb 71]
Hello Friends —
I hope you’re enjoying National Poetry Month so far! Thank you to everyone who has hit reply to a poem; I love hearing from you. For instance, you could write me back about why Nikki Giovanni gave this poem about butterflies (plural) the title “The Butterfly” (singular) in her 1972 collection My House.
As always, you can learn more about National Poetry Month at www.poets.org, the website of the Academy of American Poets.
Cheers,
Ellen