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| photo credit: Butterfly Conservation |
autographa gamma*
horned
shadowy delta
sporting
Greek ‘y’ silver logo
pubescent
abdomen exuding pheromones
intruded
her illumined, teenage bedroom at dusk!
Why
the odyssey, Alpha to Omega, Athens to Aberdeen?
Do
irresistible rays promise northern-night nuptials
nocturnal
perfumes, bitter-sweet nectar, love, sex and decay?
Silver-y-thonged,
autographed midriff, pierced argent by Argos
teen yelled
child-outrage at fluttering graffiti’d invader of personal space!
Gran’ma summoned to recue the maid, sighed, “Why dear, it’s only a moth!”
2003 / 2014
* The silver Y is a
migratory moth of the family Noctuidae which is named for the silvery Y-shaped
mark on each of its forewings.
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