William Mahar
William
Mahar
Photos: Frank DiMeo unless otherwise notedMusic score for “Then” by Christopher Morgan Loy
The ButterflyThen
For my Mother and Father
See how the monarch butterflysuch a slight sliver of paperups and turns and ups:
How he seems sooblivious to the steep staggerings of buildingsand the ruinous lights of the brook:
3000 miles to goand wings so light with going.
THE BUTTERFLY
McClane’s new collection of essays, Color: Essays onRace, Family, and History,will appear in 2007.
Kenneth A. McClane Jr.English
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From Take Five: Collected Poems,1971–1986 (New York: GreenwoodPress, 1988).
THEN
wild corn does a yellow dancefor the crow
flying to bethere when
the river lights, and the insectssteady as jazz
finger the swing vinesdown.
ChristopherMorganLoy
Kenneth McClaneEnglish