Monday, October 3, 2011

Wingsexposing




The striking yellow cat relied on her natural camouflage to hunt on the back of the illustrious tiger swallowtail. Never did she have more success than the time the tiger swallowtail alighted upon the dainty daffodil, remaining perfectly still just long enough for her to pounce upon the flighty manila folder she’d been tracking for days. Fiber! Her cactus-fruit-sized brain exclaimed as she delivered the final death chomp to the helpless folder. As yellow mandibles shredded processed tree, the pepper-flecked world around them lurched and then rose with an effortless impossibility known only to butterfly wings. The tiger swallowtail knew its departure would leave the dainty daffodil naked and exposed to the affectionate advances of the searing sun yet this knowledge did not impede its flickering flight upward. The dainty daffodil cried out mutely to the tiger swallowtail, silently screaming for salvation. But its noiseless pleas wilted and fell earthward.