“A kite is a victim you are sure of.
You love it because it pulls
gentle enough to call you master,
strong enough to call you fool;
because it lives
like a desperate trained falcon
in the high sweet air,
and you can always haul it down
to tame it in your drawer.
A kite is a fish you have already caught
in a pool where no fish come,
so you play him carefully and long,
and hope he won't give up,
or the wind die down.
A kite is the last poem you've written
so you give it to the wind,
but you don't let it go
until someone finds you
something else to do.”
-- Leonard Cohen, The Spice Box of Earth
[Nov. 3rd, 2013 11:06:11 PM]
This butterfly is commonly called a rice paper butterfly or a paper kite. I know the poem is about a real kite, but I kind of liked the way some of the lines worked with a butterfly, too.
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