(Listen to the poem here)
I’d never seen a butterfly
in town before.
On Calle Dos de Mayo
in Cuautla
there was one,
red, black and big
and beautiful
and making stops
at all the same
shop windows
I went staring at.
Phillip Hill 2007
(This poem is included in my book The Observation Car which is available from
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Sideways Station 