Identity

August 10, 2010 ยง Martha Christina

by Martha Christina

From a distance I mistake
the albino caterpillar
for a small gull feather,
common in a coastal garden.

Up close, what does it
make of my finger,
twice its girth, as I lift it
from the slick surface
of a stone, and place it
in the assumed safety
of the ferns?

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