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