The garden is planted

Emerged are

Sweet Williams

Cornflowers

California Poppies

Gaillardia

Yellows Cosmos

and Coreopsis

All these and more

stand ready to entice Lepidoptera

This butterfly garden

entered through

garden gates

guarded by three

butterfly bushes

and a Russian Sage

awaits their

glorious descent

Have the Monarchs

migrated from Mexico?

Or are they, too,

in jeopardy?

My garden is devoid

of lovely winged

creatures

I mourn their absence

Where, oh where, are the butterflies?

D.J. Hausman-Hill

Lititz