Questions for a Butterfly

Where do you find willTo move papery wingsThe color of autumn leavesOn your erratic flight over milkweed andGolden rod?

How do you go onMile after mileBuffeted by windAnd soaked by rainWhen you seemSo fragile?

Do you feel a growing urgencyAs time passesThat it might run outBefore you reach that placeYou long for yetCan’t nameOr describe?