Butterfly Selfies Valentine

Here is the culprit the Gulf Fritillary butterfly

Laying its eggs on the leaves that hatch

Into caterpillars which completely devour

The vine ultimately killing it

And then those same caterpillars

Curl up in little blankets to sleep it all off

And wake up weeks later as butterflies again 

What???  Science says 'life cycle' 

This is like a card trick or a display

Of proficiency by some god of the seasons

A picture of how matter is transformed

Which is like a kind of breathing a magic code

Made commonplace like electricity

So no one notices it anymore how every

Material thing is born as a work of art

And must lose itself to find itself again