Something Beautiful Died in my Hands Today
Actually, it was a few days ago, but I should have posted it here.
It was a monarch butterfly I found on the side of the road in Marblehead. I thought it was a leaf but it was an injured butterfly.
Couldn't fly.
Missing two legs.
I put my finger out and the poor thing climbed onto it then into my palm and I walked back to my car with him and Mike sheltering it from the wind.
It had been clinging to a concrete curb for I don't know how long but it's wings were torn at the end a bit and scratched up.
I brought it to work with me, picked flowers and it looked like it was getting better, but at 1030 I put my hand out and he climbed aboard and quietly died.
It was a monarch butterfly I found on the side of the road in Marblehead. I thought it was a leaf but it was an injured butterfly.
Couldn't fly.
Missing two legs.
I put my finger out and the poor thing climbed onto it then into my palm and I walked back to my car with him and Mike sheltering it from the wind.
It had been clinging to a concrete curb for I don't know how long but it's wings were torn at the end a bit and scratched up.
I brought it to work with me, picked flowers and it looked like it was getting better, but at 1030 I put my hand out and he climbed aboard and quietly died.