In the Garden

Authors

John Alba Cutler

Keywords

garden, wings, emergence, dark

Abstract

Tumbling about in nervous flight still getting the feel for the lift— it flutters and keeps to shadow its blue eyes melting into dark. Papilio Machaon, after Asclepius’s son, or swallowtail because of its wings like feathers all geometry and movement the mute beauty of givenness.

Recommended Citation

Cutler, John Alba (2021) "In the Garden," BYU Studies Quarterly: Vol. 60: Iss. 4, Article 7.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/byusq/vol60/iss4/7