A Butterfly’s Exposition
Plated between clear panes,
a pair of wings whimper
wordlessly. Pinned in poses of flight,
their pigments glitter beneath lighted tracks.
Death displayed as art.
I mourn this
stolen flight.
A.J. Huffman has published eleven solo chapbooks and one joint chapbook through various small presses. Her new full-length poetry collection, Another Blood Jet, is now available from Eldritch Press. She has another full-length poetry collection, A Few Bullets Short of Home, scheduled for release in Summer 2015, from mgv2>publishing. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee, and has published over 2000 poems in various national and international journals, including Labletter, The James Dickey Review, Bone Orchard, EgoPHobia, and Kritya. She is also the founding editor of Kind of a Hurricane Press. www.kindofahurricanepress.com
Copyright © 2016 by A.J. Huffman
Cover Image by Palash Kapoor