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Final Flight
from Kiosk 61
Final Flight
by Madi DeFrain
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Monarchs alight like flaming funeral pyres,
Coating oak trees in molten migration.
Butterflies bundling, swinging like Spanish moss,
Dreaming of December in Mexico’s temperance.
Sunset wings whirl in wind-coated acid,
Flyers fall flattened by skyscraper smog.
Plight of prison pigment,
Butterfly bodies dissolve like pale corpse eyelids;
Souls swimming in eternal swarm.
Allie Carroll - Las Fallas, 2019
