Three Blue Butterflies
I. MORPHO MENELAUS
Foiled acqua-
moiré wings the
butterfly’s beauty-
mark hydraulic in its
purposes his
hair’s flame lifts
you snarls you
II. MORPHO ACHILLES
Sea-bed in semaphore / an
eyepiece wing-span
delft dye vat-dipped shingle
scintilla : truant
and acclimate enfold
or infuriate: SOS:
Don’t surround
Don’t surround
yourself with yourself
III. MORPHO RHETENOR HELENA
Neon heather sky-
lit bluer than moiré:
inseam of street
trash lush mask-
contour soul-
strait fungible
as raiment in the
crawlspace radiating
amatory birds’
egg bulls-eye
Copyright Credit: Christina Pugh, "Three Blue Butterflies" from Perception. Copyright © 2017 by Christina Pugh. Reprinted by permission of Four Way Books, www.fourwaybooks.com.
Source: Perception (Four Way Books, 2017)