Diana Darby ** "I V" ** Intravenous

Lady Bug Morning

This morning I found a ladybug on my kitchen counter.
She was
on her back
like an overturned canoe.
At first I mistook her for a cereal crumb
and nearly squashed her with my sponge
but at the last moment
I saw legs.
Cereal crumbs don’t have legs.
And they don’t move.
I flipped her over,
right side up,
and looked at her little round spots.
I watched her slowly walk across the blue counter
as if she were walking across an ocean.
Yes,
she was back on her journey,
as if she had never been upside down
at all.