Luck of ladybugs

A poem from 5 years ago, a photo from today....

Ladybug Ladybug

Imagine the intricate maneuverings,

the balance of bodies—wings for the moment

useless—as the two of them, ladybug

and her gentleman-bug, red-robed with their

clan’s ancestral black insignia (don’t

call it polka-dots!), perform their prehistoric

dance, joined together on a trefoil leaf

of blackberry-bramble almost lost in spring

green, then moving still in unison

up a neighboring stalk and onto a finger-leaf

of lupine, all in the service of perpetuation

of species through the ages, the future,

the luck of ladybugs.

~ Taylor Graham

first appeared on Medusa’s Kitchen