Butterfly Center

My grandson screams and runs away 

from a butterfly, flutterflower,

 wings fine as petals.

The butterfly, gentlest creature,

flies on, perhaps abashed, perhaps, 

feeling manly for having made 

a child cry, to pick a fight 

with a Monarch.

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