& the three butterflies lightly suspend just
above the road, knee high; flutters of six
wings, in almost embrace; what we think
we know of instinct; aren’t we all in hover
& slightly out of place, bringing a bent
kind of beauty with us in our gait; show me
what your gait looks like? I’ll show you mine.
Contrasts of yellows & oranges in delicate
bob against asphalt—something
necessary & at work here; where concrete
winds, so too, winds the work of insect; say
my thorax of me, my speckled body; say I wonder
in air & find you in pause, in witness; we all in
the middle with other, round & round
until whatever limbs we have tire {of} us.
Felicia Zamora is the author of the book Of Form & Gather, winner of the 2016 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize from University of Notre Dame Press (2017). She won the 2015 Tomaž Šalamun Prize from Verse, and authored the chapbooks Imbibe {et alia} here (Dancing Girl Press 2016) and Moby-Dick Made Me Do It (2010). Her published works may be found or forthcoming in Columbia Poetry Review, Crazyhorse, Hotel Amerika, Indiana Review, Meridian, North American Review, Phoebe, Pleiades, Poetry Daily, Poetry Northwest, Puerto del Sol, Tarpaulin Sky Magazine, The Adirondack Review, The Cincinnati Review, The Michigan Quarterly, The Normal School, TriQuarterly Review, Verse Daily, Witness Magazine, West Branch, and others. She is an associate poetry editor for the Colorado Review and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Colorado State University. 
