Two Butterflies Went Out At Noon

Two Butterflies went out at Noon  
With party hats and scarves.  
They saved all year and very soon,  
A merry Plan they carved.  

They caper’d high and were in awe  
Sight-seeing at the zoo.  
They took in sights they never saw,  
Had tea with macaroons.  
 
They made a friend along the sea  
With rainbow-colored hair.  
Play’d hide & seek down by the quay,
That’s where they lost him there.

So on a whim they took a cruise
To Catalina Isle,
Where flowers bloom & cockatoos,
They might be gone a while.




Image: a photo (circa 1955) from my family’s collection, of a cousin posing among hibiscus in the botanical gardens on Santa Catalina Island.