' ' ' ' ' A Surprise Of Butterflies(For Helen And Her Girl Child) Poem by Dónall Dempsey

A SURPRISE OF BUTTERFLIES

A cluster
(is that the correct term
for the collective noun)

a cluster
of butterflies?

Maybe it should be
a joy of butterflies

a surprise of butterflies.

My little girl
amazed

as they invade
our garden

even settling upon
her
as if she were

a walking
flower.

She young enough
to believe

these
are the fairies

one reads about.

Imagination
& Reality

for this one
(moment)

becoming
One.

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A kindle of kittens...a watch of nightingales...a sulk of foxes! I love the surprising collectives...they are almost surreal.