Butterfly Wings are Made of Scales
a novel beauty that flakes when touched,
a flimsy shield that falls like dust when brushed;
barring it from any ability to soar.
Blissful ignorance impedes this knowledge,
inconvenient to those who refuse to admire detail
past what lay visible at first glance.
Twelve days it takes to create the delicate armour -
an image of vibrant petals fluttering mid-air,
so beautiful a sight, it is disputed
to even be made of scales at all.
A shame to only attribute these
defensive plates with all that is
cold-blooded.
Samantha Pardo Irigoyen is a multi-genre poet, with an emphasis on Haiku. Her work has been published with The Heron's Nest, Poetry Pea Journal, Akitsu Quarterly, and the Dewdrop, amongst others. She continues to write from her home in the Pacific Northwest, a place of poetic beauty itself.
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