Springtime

This was my favorite because I have read the novel Lolita by Nabokov and thought this poem's allusion to him was very interesting.I liked how the title was a bit misleading  because it sounds like it is going to literally talk about the wonders of spring and butterflies. I was pleasantly surprised to see that it had a much deeper meaning and references that I was familiar with. Butterfly Catcher
by Tina Cane
In the Sixties Nabokov switched from ink to eraser- topped pencil on index cards a box of cards for Ada a box of cards for dreams whose "curious features" include "erotic tenderness and heart-rending enchantment" in one draft he traded "stillness and heat" for "silence, a burning" so picture: Vladimir seated at the trunk of a tree a spring day at Wellesley where he marvels at his students and their cable-knit socks the way each elastic grips without binding just below the knee so exquisite an application of pressure that when said sock is slowly peeled off the skin shows no trace at all