Impossibly Beautiful Blue
so exquisite the blue morpho
the delicate aerialist cups and claps
his expansive wings in languid beats
as his iridescence shimmers
through refracted and reflected light
among a million overlapping scales
gleaming sapphire so bright
to think he was a dull-colored caterpillar
before pupae/chrysalis/metamorphosis to
a mystical creature of brilliant blue
yet it’s that rarity predators seek
jacamars, flycatchers, humans, too,
all after his impossibly beautiful blue
Periwinkle
Five petaled star,
Phoenician purple beckoning
like a palette stretching deep violet
along sky’s edge when dusk’s first stars
twinkle over your floral carpets
in forests, hills, and gardens,
bound to this land where you touch ground,
trailing stems rooting,
bracing slopes and hillsides,
rising amidst emeralds of little ellipses.
