The human brain wants to complete—

The poem too easy? Bored. The poem too hard?
Angry. What’s this one about? Around the block
the easy summer weather, the picture-puff clouds
adrift in the blue sky that’s no paint-by-numbers.
 
In the corner garden, the cabbage butterfly
bothers the big leafy heads, trying to complete
its life cycle by hatching a horned monster to
chew holes in the green cloth manufactured so
laboriously by seed germ from air, water,
light, dirt. There’s no end to this, yes, no end.
 
Even when we want to stop, stop, stop! Even
when someone else calls us monster. Even when
we fear and hope that we will not have the final
word.

Ok, so, before I actually read the poem, I looked up what a Cabbage Butterfly is since I didn’t know if it was a phrase, something made up, a reference, or a literal butterfly. It was a literal butterfly. They’re also called Pieris Rapae and are just small, white, butterflies. Now, moving back to the poem. The first line, “The human brain wants to complete—” it’s almost like the poem itself is challenging the reader, saying that the brain wants to complete the sentence, I feel like it was meant to confuse the reader before you continue reading, to unbalance you so the rest of the poem can shove you over. Then the second stanza, the poem seems to almost be talking about itself, telling itself that it can’t be too easy or too hard else it would upset the viewer, or maybe that’s the goal for the next question is “What’s this one about?” before describing scenery. I believe that this is the ‘true’ beginning of the ‘poem’. The end of the second paragraph and the third paragraph talk about scenery, watching nature do it’s work, and then the fourth paragraph comes. It sounds panicked, frightened, anxious. The repetition of the word ‘stop’ in the 12th line conveys those feelings. Speaking of a ‘monster’. Possibly the monster called society, putting an end to the natural way of things, possibly the monster of ones very own darkness, hallucinations, violent outbreaks, ect. I don’t know what the monster is supposed to be because it is always changing along with the reader.