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Fairleigh Dickinson University

Olivia McCannon

Do Boys Turn into Butterflies

May 2, 2022

Olivia McCannon

      You’ll always be a thing of sun-dazzle and sweetness soft as fingertips, suckling nectar and tuned to bliss—   No butterfly will be gale-torn, wasp-stabbed, clawed or pinned—not while I inhale your hair, listening   What do … Continued

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