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