they spent the summer spinning
silk buttons fastened
in air. he found her humming
to swaying leaves. a current
across persuasions
blew until the world quaked,
and split form—
and the bodies at stake,
the interior paramour,
the pupae inside the chrysalides,
evolved, became exterior:
extended wings studded with the Pleiades.
a pulse quickens before it slows.
from one death in the dark, they eclose.
