Winged Haunt

I Came Out
A Butterfly.
Nary a year gone by
Since Full Emergence.

Sublime Symbolism
As Larval Liquid morphed into
Magnificent Monarch

Other creatures fly
With
Far
Less
Hope.

The hideous harpyiæ
of the agonizing
Æneid…

Bird-bodied,
girl-faced things they are;
abominable their droppings,
their hands are talons,
their faces haggard
with hunger insatiable

Imagine –

I might have ingested
The life-lending
Anti-agathic and
Been your winged haunt
For all eternity.

Wantonly
Wasting your World
with Wind.

As a “Snatcher”
I could stir up
a storm, sow
cyclonic discord
into your fondest fantasy
and whisk you away
into the boundless abyss

Forever misfortuned
By unforgiving Furies.

…

The butterfly
is looking even better
now,

isn’t it?

It really is
All.
About.
Perspective.

You’re Welcome.

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Day Twelve

Finally, our prompt (optional, as always). I’m calling this one “Past and Future.” This prompt challenges you to write a poem using at least one word/concept/idea from each of two specialty dictionaries: Lempriere’s Classical Dictionary and the Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction. A hat tip to Cathy Park Hong for a tweet that pointed me to the science fiction dictionary and to Hoa Nguyen for introducing me to the Classical Dictionary.

My word from the Classical Dictionary was “Harpyiæ” (Harpy):

My word from the Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction was “Anti-Agathic”: