DELICACY, ETHEREALITY, THE BUTTERFLY WINGS OF THE SOUL

As part of Connor's home-schooling I've been teaching him haiku. It's a wonderful way to learn imagery and active language, and to teach him to consider the weight of a word before using it: when space is limited, everything has to count.

His first few efforts were simple things, but yesterday, sitting in the library at Murdoch University where we were using my rostered day off to indulge in a home schooling day trip, he cracked the active-language barrier, and gave me this one:

Bony flaming wings

slaughtering humans for food

Fire-breathing reptile.

The delicacy of thought, with the bloodthirsty gusto of the 8 year old. What's not to love?