Wisdom
Summers claim children
curious to wander,
to befriend
a butterfly
on a leaf.
This found poem uses words or phrases drawn unaltered from death notices published in the January 23, 2023, Toronto Globe and Mail. It appears first in the poetry collection, Life, after life—from epitaph to epilogue, by A. Garnett Weiss (Aeolus House, 2024). JC writes found poems and centos using that pseudonym.