Tiger Riding for Beginners

Traveling Poet Philosopher & Occasional Wiseacre

folded butterfly
 might pass for a leaf,
  if not bright orange

a false blossom,
 that crawls with wasps, hangs
  from a bare branch

the tailed jay
is the only shade of green
that's not camouflage

the russet percher:
its look says "fast flyer," but 
its name says "good sitter"

a butterfly lands;
unmoved by wind or leaf sway,
but point a camera…

cornstalk beetle 
bigger around than the stalk:
bad at hide-n-seek

two butterflies
stand their ground on the path,
despite footfall quakes

two red bugs mate
on one side of a tree;
on the other: orgy

a wasp & an ant
converge on a cloying plant
blithe on each other

the dragonfly
is still, and I wonder
whether it's dead,
and further wonder whether
anyone has thought that of me