Splayed Like a Butterfly, by Laura Page

I Understand Your Loneliness, by Lorette C. Luzajic (Canada), 2016. Click image to view on Etsy.

Splayed Like a Butterfly
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She would no sooner 
thigh gap than splay the butterfly.
she’d face a wall as 
soon as a window
because a sky is a wall too, just
bluer. And splayed like knees 
to the sun. 
And butterfly
 like bricks with eyes.

Laura Page
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Laura Page is a graduate of Southern Oregon University where she studied English and Sociology. Her work has appeared in many literary publications, including Red Paint Hill, The Minola Review, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and Kindred. Her chapbook, "Children, Apostates" is forthcoming from Dancing Girl Press.