This winter tableau, and the flutter of summer wings below it, both come from Kate Murray’s poetry pamphlet, From the Lang Rig.                        

SEEN FROM THE LANG RIG

February sun.

Inchcolm becalmed

on a jade plateau;

sugar-cube Bass Rock

perched on a length

of bridesmaid-blue satin ribbon.

~

Due North by Burntisland

a reach of the Forth alchemised

to a golden crocodile

suns itself out of inertia,

glides westwards

through Mortimer’s Deep.

POLYOMMATUS ICARUS –AND THEY CALL IT COMMON BLUE!     

I follow where it leads

in fly-dance-flutter;

orange-eyeletted,

brushed with pearl from

the gates of Shangri-la.

~

It settles. Opens

Cerulean wings

fibrillating

my heart strings,

bringing me down

~

to lie long gazing

high, until I find

where the butterfly shape

was jigsawed from

the blue, blue sky.