Monday, March 5, 2012

Locust

A bloom to dote upon, to
celebrate in verse and frame,
to pluck, to decorate, to admire.

A plague that devastates, shadowing
the land in a heaving swarm; a
pestilence to fear, to evade, to hate.

The dichotomy of a
single word.

Copyright, Catherine Young, 2012.

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