Ryan's Suit

With Ryan Clayton and Paul Litherland on camera

… a colony of monarch butterflies, numbering more than fifteen thousand, are beginning their yearly migration south. In the span of two months, from September to November, they will move, one wing beat at a time from Southern Canada to the United States to portions of central Mexico, where they will spend the winter.

The perch among us, on windowsills and chain link fences, clotheslines still blurred from the just-hung weight of clothes, the hood of a faded blue chevy, their wings folding slowly, as if being put away, before snapping once, into flight.

It only takes a single night of frost to kill off a generation. To live, then, is a matter of time, of timing. Ocean Vuong On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

A suited man strolls through Montreal’s Mount Royal Cemetery as an invasion of Painted Lady butterflies take a pit stop on their annual migratory flight to Mexico.

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