Prompt: Really see the world

 

 

For this exercise, I invite you to get out in nature and observe the world close up.

Once I watched a butterfly very closely as it did its work, moving from blossom to blossom. But then it took off and flew straight up, higher and higher until it became a mere speck, and then, after, an imagined speck. I'm pretty sure I kept tracking it long after I actually lost it in the sky.

I was surprised that butterflies could go so high. Maybe something in your world will surprise you if you look at it long enough and study it closely enough.

That's your assignment, then: Observe something longer than you ever have before, and then tell us about it in a poem.