'I watch the undulating butterfly / draw nectar from the open flower' Photo: Photo: Louise Docker / flickr CC.

'Oblation' by Don Hartridge

Oblation

'Oblation' by Don Hartridge

by Don Hartridge 27th June 2014

Wrapped in the silent Quaker hour
I see behind closed eyes
the lattice of a purple honeycomb.
I watch the undulating butterfly
draw nectar from the open flower
whose shy sense shapes the gift
of hidden power.