Butterflies

Sonic drag
and television snow
in the rhododendrons

White scales smudge the windows

Fluttery

It’s all
just description

A wall of butterflies falls apart in the middle of the air or flies back together again like drywall

Their eyes are spackled

All together in a pile above the grass they look fluorescent

Children
coming home from school at noon

Their legs go tick tick

Someone changes the channel inside a cocoon

Butterflies

Sketchy
through a hole in the butterfly day
an orange and yellow
slipstream

Better than birds

Hanging laundry by remote control

Drinking Coca-Cola
and imitating roses in the pink
suburbs

There is no way to guess which way they’ll go just scraps of air and then nothing at all
             like on AM radio

Careful with each other

Hands glued together with Elmer’s

Pinned
to brown particleboard