{"id":3777,"date":"2015-11-06T17:16:13","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T17:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/?p=3777"},"modified":"2015-11-06T17:16:13","modified_gmt":"2015-11-06T17:16:13","slug":"our-butterfly-does-not-fit-in-irene-mitchell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/?p=3777","title":{"rendered":"Our Butterfly Does Not Fit In &#8212; Irene Mitchell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our butterfly is neither madam<br \/>\nnor monsieur, but flight<br \/>\nis the theme<br \/>\nwhich means anywhere is the domain,<br \/>\nanywhere<br \/>\nbutterfly won\u2019t be maimed<br \/>\nor captured<br \/>\nby the criminal element among butterflies<br \/>\nor butterfingers.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe darkening surround may startle<br \/>\nbirds, but butterflies<br \/>\nfrom their milkweed pillow or atop<br \/>\nsome pearly groundcover<br \/>\nwill not budge<br \/>\nexcept when trumpeter swans<br \/>\nsound the alarm: <em>Incoming downpour!<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Prankish net!<\/em><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nSo the tone is set for fear.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nFear of time\u2019s revenges<br \/>\nand fear<br \/>\nof its wondrous ecstasies,<br \/>\nits sumptuous unravelings,<br \/>\ndipped but not too honeysuckle sweet.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nIrene Mitchell, a long-time teacher of writing, is the author of <em>Minding the Spectrum\u2019s Business <\/em>(Future Cycle Press, 2015), <em>A Study of Extremes in Six Suites<\/em> (Cherry Grove Collections, 2012), and <em>Sea Wind on the White Pillow<\/em> (Axes Mundi Press, 2009). Formerly poetry editor of Hudson River Art Journal, Mitchell has served as poetry contest juror, and facilitator of poetry workshops. She is known for her collaborations with visual artists and composers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our butterfly is neither madam nor monsieur, but flight is the theme which means anywhere is the domain, anywhere butterfly won\u2019t be maimed or captured by the criminal element among butterflies or butterfingers. &nbsp; The darkening surround may startle birds, but butterflies from their milkweed pillow or atop some pearly groundcover will not budge except [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3777"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3782,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3777\/revisions\/3782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}