Twist in time, swallow rhymes

In the latest monarch news, my mother went out this morning to gather milkweed to feed her two remaining caterpillars and a butterfly landed directly on the leaf she was about to pluck and laid a small white egg in the clearest gesture of "Fireman, save my baby!" I have seen from the insect kingdom. So she took it indoors and will raise it to its obvious destiny.

I am dead exhausted, but Readercon is going splendidly so far.