Poem
Three Blue Butterflies
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Christina Pugh
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 surroundDon’t surroundyourself 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
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