A SURPRISE OF BUTTERFLIES

A cluster
(is that the correct term
for the collective noun)

a cluster
of butterflies?

Maybe it should be
a joy of butterflies

a surprise of butterflies.

My little girl
amazed

as they invade
our garden

even settling upon
her
as if she were

a walking
flower.

She young enough
to believe

these
are the fairies

one reads about.

Imagination
& Reality

for this one
(moment)

becoming
One.

******

A kindle of kittens...a watch of nightingales...a sulk of foxes! I love the surprising collectives...they are almost surreal.

Dónall Dempsey

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-surprise-of-butterflies-for-helen-and-her-girl-child/