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The Man-Butterfly

Kyle Hemmings

    She remembered him when he had no wings, was just the cocoon of a man she could own. She bought him expensive shoes, a size too large, and he’d stumbled into her at intersections. She thought he had died in a car accident, leaked toxic substances into the air. Became clap and karma. Now in her room, rehearsing an erotic arabesque for a potential victims, she sees the man-butterfly inside the window. Outside, one of her father’s tractors rams against ancient rock; other machines are sleeping out of gear. So are the men. Chasing the man-butterfly across the room, following the shadows of his crazy flight across the ceiling, she catches him in her bare feet. He tries to imitate a swallowtail, but she pronounces him as mourning cloak. She whispers to him as he beats against her cupped hands, “Everything I catch, I destroy. I’ll never have children.” She keeps the man- butterfly in a glass jar. There is a notch in the lid so nothing will become breathless before harvest. Her younger sister, who lives three worlds apart, opens the jar and swallows the man-butterfly. She knows her children will fly.



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