"Butterfly" / by Stephanie Finell -- Acknowledgments -- The thunderbolt -- In limbo -- Chrysalis -- Moments of light -- The devil's choice -- The awakening -- Slowly, too slowly -- Fissures -- The teacher -- Patterns and repetition -- The goldfish bowl -- Miracles and roses -- Pressures, explosions -- Sweet sixteen -- Shadow play -- Prisons -- No more songs -- Of lion trees and elephants -- The heartbeat of the earth -- Back in the land of fear -- The black knight -- New beginnings -- The golden city -- Special Olympics -- Two weddings, three funerals -- Changes -- Navajo land -- Falling in love again -- Spirit visit -- Rainbows and moonbows -- Things a mother should never know -- Postscriptum. |