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| July 2022 |
Observing those things
tiny and easily missed
rouses my curiosity.
It was a black dot
on the window frame.
A bug smaller than a lady bug,
but with the same round shape.
Some bugs I just squish,
but this innocuous little bug
didn’t deserve to feel
my gigantic thumb take it’s life.
After all it didn’t look to be a threat. Not an entomologist,
I couldn’t know for sure.
What I did know for sure was that
it marred the white window frame.
Tissue in hand, I gently picked it up
and set it outside in the cool air.
What was it’s fate?
I just hope I did the right thing.
“Hurt no living thing: Ladybird, nor butterfly, Nor moth with dusty wing.”
~ Christina Rossetti, poet
(1830 ~ 1894)
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