STUFF I’VE NEVER TOLD ANYBODY

By John Grey [Winner: 2nd Place]

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I kneel down

in a garden

watch tiny insects

go about

their tiny insect business

when I remark to myself

how they do

just the kind of stuff

people do

whether it’s nibbling

on what’s handy

building things

sniffing flowers

hanging out together

only

there’s more of them

and

to be honest

I don’t like their looks.

Then I spy

a butterfly

bright gold

deep black

flitting gracefully

from flower to flower.

All it takes

is one flutter of wing

and I meet the girl

that I’m going to marry.