“A much dwindled, starker annotator…”

“A much dwindled, starker annotator…”

A much dwindled, starker annotator sitting in a child’s prison for butterflies. There’s Phoebus. There’s Painted Lady, Dog Face, White Admiral, Zebra, Mourning Cloak, Question Mark, Little Wood Satyr. Their colors are very pretty.
Who told the little kid about sticking pins into us?

--Charles Simic, from the world doesn't end (1989)