Richard Dunn-Roberts
View from the Dock at Dulamo Thanksgiving Morning, 2003 |
Chaos and the Butterfly
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Chaos grows like a forest around my life; the path leads down to death.
But whether I speed up to pass the jerk, or slow down because I know that cop hides here, the butterfly still flits unknowingly, inexorably, towards my radiator grill.
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And so what if it’s all coincidence, or serendipity?
As I lay down at last, at home, my corrupting body cries out from every cell, "It is beautiful!", and softly repeats, "It is beautiful."
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Photograph, © 2003, Richard Dunn-Roberts
Poem, © 2004, Richard Dunn-Roberts