Let me see the wick of wing, white moons
surrounded
by blue-violet halos, etching
the black. Let me remember
it is also not that. Let me be
the compound eye
which slivers
the ultraviolet spectrum,
populates the invisible
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Blue moon butterfly
Let me see the wick of wing, white moons
surrounded
by blue-violet halos, etching
the black. Let me remember
it is also not that. Let me be
the compound eye
which slivers
the ultraviolet spectrum,
populates the invisible
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