BUTTERFLY WOMAN by John Grey

 

David Levinson

BUTTERFLY WOMAN

The black-dotted fritillary

inquires as to the nectar

of her nose.

A fluttery eastern comma

presses down on her temple

with its hindwings.

One eye is the white-rimmed black

of a fanciful admiral.

The other boasts the tigerish stripes

of a swallowtail.

One lip is orange sulfur,

the other light-gray copper.

And her throat lights up 

with skippers, 

rusty gold and bright yellow.

She is a woman

who makes the most 

of a relaxing rest-stop 

in an open field.

A checkerboard of flighty beauty

is a look in her direction.

© John Grey

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John Grey

John Grey is an Australian poet, a US resident, and has recently been published in Midnight Mind, Novus, and Abbey. His latest books, “Bittersweet," “Subject Matters,” and “Between Two Fires,” are available through Amazon. Work upcoming in Alchemy, Touchstone, and Willow Review.

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