Nice one Damien. Looking good. Great research!

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and given the chance, crocodile / tears, too.

From If There Is a Butterfly 🦋 That Drinks Tears (Life Before Man/Gazebo Books) (LINK in BIO)

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Julia butterflies drink the tears of turtles; / the sweat of animals; humans,

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a scatter of minerals, infinitesimal elements in a / stew that keeps us alive. In the Amazon,

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they are to become. How do we remember who / we’re meant to be? A sip of salt, imaginal discs,

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survive this process; imaginal discs. / These cells hold onto a memory of what

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turns to liquid inside the chrysalis before it is made / into a butterfly. In that soup there are cells that

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the action and reaction of an impassive, / amoral toddler-dictator. The caterpillar digests itself,

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explain action and consequence to my / four-year old, but to him there is only

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up the chrysalis from the ground, set it on a / warm ledge and hope for the best. I try to

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let it drink the tears of children who do / not understand their mother’s anger. I pick

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onto the shell she carries on her back. / If there is a butterfly that drinks tears

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The turtle does not turn her head, she / plods on, a map of the Milky Way carved

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I scream, ‘No!’ /
Insides turn to liquid.

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With two sticks in hand my son plays crocodile and / whacks the chrysalis, splitting it from the cremaster.

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glass window outline of wings. / There are ‘ooos’ and ‘aaahs.’

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light we observe the translucent veil between / two worlds, the pulse of a heartbeat, the stained

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On the siding of our cottage, my four-year-old / spies a chrysalis. In the high overhead

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and crush a butterfly underfoot will my / misstep ripple through time?

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in their wings, a ragged curtain left hanging / in a house too long. If I step off this path

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off in Antarctica. Monarchs fight to / find a place to overwinter. Target holes

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great walls begin to spring up between butterfly / preserves at the speed ice sheets break 

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If there is a butterfly that drinks tears / let it drink the tears of mothers. Down South

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