Metamorphosis

"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough."

~ Rabindranath Tagore

Mesmerized by a monarch butterfly in the midst of morning chores

Time had to be taken to sit in the wet grass and watch

Watch as it slowly opened and closed its wings

Open... close... open... close... now and then a little flutter

Newly emerged from its chrysalis... metamorphosis

As if defying summer to end