One way to find tiny monarch caterpillars on milkweed leaves is to look for their characteristic C-shaped chewprints.
I wrote this poem as a response to editor Carol Hinz's November 2017 Ditty of the Month Club challenge for Michelle Heidenrich Barnes's blog, Today's Little Ditty. The challenge was to write a poem that finds beauty in something not usually considered beautiful. Visit the padlet to read all the inspiring poems.
Evidence
Something is eating the milkweed plants,
nibbling them naked,
stripping the garden bare.
Something is chomping this tattered leaf.
It left its mark in the shape of a C—
C for chewing
and crawling
and caterpillar
and cheering!
Hooray! The monarchs are here!
JoAnn Early Macken
Mary Lee Hahn is hosting Poetry Friday at A Year of Reading. Enjoy!
Whoops, I forgot this at first: For more monarch info and photos, see my Monarch page.