Aglais Io

Opened
it lay before me on the path:
earth’s lightest book —
it has but two pages.
Filled with wonder I read its magic signs.
Then it ascended into the air.
No apocalypse.
Only a couple of words from summer’s
secret revelation:
Aglais io, peacock butterfly.

Christine Busta (1915–1987)

 Photograph: Didier Descouens – Own work; copied from wikipedia.

Thank you to Bishop Erik Varden for sharing this poem on his Coram Fratribus blog.