Ondine

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My collection of Lepidoptera:

(Extermina Sum)

They are delicate specimens to be handled with tenderness, when they are yours please handle them with care and patience, gaze upon them with affection, as a voyeur would, it is the past in your hands.

Enclosed in the magic box are several species.

It is a suspended perspiration of life, a fetishization of death. Something that blurs the lines between blush and pale, a fairytale, a glass coffin of sorts.

It incites a flurry of feelings; inspiration, admiration, a little caution and conscience.

Red Admiral (Vanessa Atlanta) crimson-barred butterfly* procured on 3/26/07

Swallowtail (Papilio machaon) this particular one is in the color yellow. It is resilient

Monarch butterfly (danaus plexippus) Empress which embarks upon pilgrimage, family:

Nymphalidae

Blue morpho (Morpho menelaus): the rare shade of lapis lazuli, exquisite specimen in great shape and condition

Jesus (Celestine daecia) in crucifixion procured 3/24/36, reunion

Crimson rose (Pachliopta hector) butterfly of the rose genus.

*I am thinking of you darling friend

VN on catching butterflies: "It is like a momentary vacuum into which rushes all that I love, a sense of oneness with sun and stone, a thrill of gratitude to whom it may concern, perhaps to the contrapuntal genius of human fate or to the tender ghosts humoring a lucky mortal!"

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