Carob butterflies
The carob trees have lost their flowers.
Well, not lost,
transformed.
In the heat of early fall,
the long green pods dangle from limbs,
like overgrown green beans,
that smell sweet and sour at the same time,
and turn hard and brown
when they fall to the ground.
You can shake them,
like the rattle of a medicine man.
There are still butterflies around,
fluttering through the branches
of the carob trees.
They are the same sunny yellow
as the flowers were in the summer,
like petals,
flying on the wind.
Transformed-
petal to pod,
caterpillar to butterfly.
A miracle in itself,
but the illusion
is also compelling.
The flowers seem to have come alive,
with wings
that can carry them,
freely,
from tree to tree,
visiting like neighbors
and friends.
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