Family Syllabus - Lee Perron

[Larry Robinson]

Family Syllabus

The butterfly is quickly seized and eaten just above their lifted heads
the children had trapped it in the house under glass and card
the father brought it to freedom in the center of the family garden
a Western scrub-jay straightway brought the lesson to a close
 
In the late afternoon the father glances over his shoulder
the jay and a waxing moon are sitting side by side on a phone wire
the jay says, I know everything that goes on in your garden
the moon says, I bring pale beauty to a darkened world.
 
 	- Lee Perron 
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