Butterfly Dance

First place winner in The Lark’s poetry contest

Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash

Milkweed and ironweed
Bloom purple and yellow in the afternoon sun.
Zebra and black swallowtails,
Little azures and cabbage whites,
Monarchs and admiral butterflies,
Dance gracefully around the heads of men
Wearing grungy hardhats and goggles.