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On Display

pinned
on display
collected 
like stamps

things

stuck 
by a pin

our bodies
in rows

our wings 
wide open

netted 
and caught 
where we flew 
catching the light
and drinking the dew

now
a butterfly array 

stored

on a board—
a collection—
a hoard—
on display

lepidoptery
dismay



—Lesley Scoble, April 2026

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I love this haiku by Matsuō Bashō

Wake, butterfly—
it’s late, we’ve miles
to go together.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
My thanks to Melissa Lemay for her inspiring Melissa’s Fandango Flash Fiction Challenge #369.
The image of the butterflies in the vitrine is by Alexander Mass on Pexels.
And my thanks to you, the reader, for spending this time with me.

Melissa’s Fandango Flash Fiction Challenge #369