verse, Behavior Modification

BEHAVIOR MODIFICATIONS: Maybe, Maybe Not

I don’t yet know what that means, but it seemed like a good thing to say at the time; just in case! 

It’s been almost three months since I uttered a word here, well wrote a word here, more accurately.  It’s a sad moment.  The enormous butterfly coy that has lived in our coy pond for ten years or more, has been on his side for a month, breathing but immobile.  Today, our friend Fred came over and removed him.  He was beautiful; even though the pond is not, it looks empty.  Maybe, maybe not.  

Christmas Eve; Mass at 6 p.m.  

The Purple Plethora 

I met a Purple Plethora

while walking on our beach; 

I reached down to snatch its crown, 

It scurried out of reach. 

Why would a Purple Plethora

Wear a Golden Crown

On its serious purple head

With face made for a frown? 

 

 No Lewis Carroll am I am I,

Just a scared mouth-breather.