Inspired by Julie Alice Chappell’s exhibition ‘The Butterfly Collector’ in The ArtHouse café/gallery.
The invasion starts here
Cyber-insects - resistor-headed, circuit-winged,
Haltere-balanced gyroscopic mini-beasts,
Sit mechanically still under clear glass domes,
Or poised in wall-racked test-tubes,
Static, awaiting technological ecdysis,
To swarm, cloud, cluster, nest,
Scuttling transistor-legged,
As picofarad-pointed faces,
Watch us, soft mosaic images
Through compound LEDs,
Electronic fluttering, flight-motor whirr,
Limbs stridulate and chirr,
Live-wire antennal twitches transmit,
Up to the gravid mother-ship -
There’s a bug in my machine.
['Gravid' included as a nod to the fine poets of the Vogon empire...]
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