How To Farm Butterflies

Gouge your stomach
with a garden spade.
Bury someone's lover's
clipped-off lips like
seeds inside you and
sweep black soil over
them until they are
covered & cocooned.
They will hatch
swallowtails & metalmarks,
skippers, coppers,
brush-foots
all to flutter by
your butterfly heart
on their way
up your throat
and out your mouth
and into someone's
lover's open lips.