Pumpkin Butterfly

But here under the trees
are a trillion falling leaves
mounding and drifting and tickling and piling
curling and crumbling and blowing and flying
drying and musting of summer’s rusted heat

Look closely at the world around you, and you may see another world—a world where butterflies are the ghosts of pumpkins and an oak tree turns into a timber chimney; where raccoons are party animals, sunflowers blow jazz, and an ordinary egg is a source of wonder. In twenty-three thought-provoking and playful poems, elegantly illustrated by Jenny Reynish, Heidi Mordhorst invites us to look beyond, to see the other side of nature. Surprises await if only we open our mind’s eye.

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