Butterfly house
We pulled that fishing net over buddleia heads
like a stocking we didn’t then know meant sex.
Cabbage Whites, Peacocks and Painted Ladies
all beating hurricanes into Florida Coastlines.
We trapped two score of them in the garden shed,
our very own butterfly house, you said.
From outside we watched the small shatterproof window
like a trapped T.V. trying to escape through its own images
or, framed in six by four feet of pine,
a dancing Jackson Pollock.
like a stocking we didn’t then know meant sex.
Cabbage Whites, Peacocks and Painted Ladies
all beating hurricanes into Florida Coastlines.
We trapped two score of them in the garden shed,
our very own butterfly house, you said.
From outside we watched the small shatterproof window
like a trapped T.V. trying to escape through its own images
or, framed in six by four feet of pine,
a dancing Jackson Pollock.
Andy Craven-Griffiths comes from Leicester, and is currently studying English and Philosophy at the University of Leeds. He was joint winner of the Manchester poetry festival slam in October 2004.
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