The Monarchs’ Wedding
Flying through blue
air two
monarch butterflies
joined together
bright orange veined
with black—
one winging above
the other folded
and upside down below.
In wild joy they taste each other
with their feet: six above and six below
higher and still
higher on velvety wings
silken bodies dotted
with white
monarchs on their
nuptial flight.
--Barbara Spring
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