Color photograph. A lifeless question-mark butterfly, apparently drowned and cast ashore by ocean waves and darkened by the onset of decay, rests on its back with wings spread wide among small bits of detritus on the sand of a beach. The wings have partial color, and the insect’s dark eyes, though dead, seem to look straight at the viewer.
“Round the decay /
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare /
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
#percyshelley #ozymandias #butterflies #death #beauty #whatremainsbehind
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