We step through the second door, entering the arbortorium, and feel saturated by semi-tropical heat and humidity! Large palms and other representative flora grow out of the center. The palm branches shelter the pathways.
All around are the butterflies.
A large one with brown, splotchy wings lands on Frankie’s head. He’s seated on one of the butterfly-shaped seats stationed throughout the arbortorium. He sits still while his mother and I take four photos between us.
Then the butterfly takes flight.
Spring sunlight
an aroma of daffodils
outside World of Wings
*of or related to Lepidoptera, an order of insects that includes moths and butterflies.
Photo by Chris Abney on Unsplash
first published in Image Curve, October 26, 2017
for dVerse Poets’ Haibun Monday: Insects (pubtended by Kim Russell)
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Frank J. Tassone 
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