Matchmaker

by J.R. Solonche | Dec 1, 2021 | Poetry | 0

A white butterfly
flutters across the grass
looking to mate.
Another white butterfly
flutters identically
through the garden’s weeds
behind me looking to mate.
“Over here. Over here,” I call
to the first hoping to strike
the flame with my flinty voice.

Photo used under CC.

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J.R. Solonche

J.R. Solonche is the author of Beautiful Day (Deerbrook Editions), Won’t Be Long (Deerbrook Editions), Heart’s Content (Five Oaks Press), Invisible (nominated for the Pulitzer Prize by Five Oaks Press), The Black Birch (Kelsay Books), I, Emily Dickinson & Other Found Poems (Deerbrook Editions), In Short Order (Kelsay Books), Tomorrow, Today & Yesterday (Deerbrook Editions), True Enough (Dos Madres Press), In a Public Place (Dos Madres Press), If You Should See Me Walking on the Road (Kelsay Books), The Time of Your Life (forthcoming April 2020 from Adelaide Books), The Porch Poems (forthcoming 2020 from Deerbrook Editions), and coauthor of Peach Girl: Poems for a Chinese Daughter (Grayson Books). He lives in the Hudson Valley.

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