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)