Evana Bodiker in her favorite study spot, the Music Library Glass Room in Wilson Library. She said in an article in the creative writing program’s newsletter, “For a young poet, this is so reassuring in terms of my future as a writer. … It’s still hard to believe a book of my poetry will be out in the world for people to read.”
The greenhouse humidity
moved down our backs
like the sweat beads
on our Pimm’s cups
hours before in the garden
bar. She was our tiny
liaison, so that he and I
might say the right words
that evening more easily,
a tender empress fluttering
overhead until she chose
to land on his university
sweater first. Her frayed
wings burned cobalt
in the late London
afternoon. She let me
touch her next, climbing
onto my fingers
like they were sugar,
her gentle trapeze
teasing my skin.
He misread her name
on the placard, morphe,
but later he christened
her accurately: morpho.
For the rest of the day,
I dreamed of her
on my slouched shoulder,
my body an accomplice
in her disappearing act.
By Evana Bodiker ’18
Evana Bodiker is a senior pursuing majors in English and religious studies and a minor in creative writing. “Blue Morpho” is one of the poems featured in her new poetry collection, Ephemera (Texas Review Press, spring 2018). She won the Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize for Ephemera, which is composed largely of poems written in her intermediate and advanced poetry courses at UNC. In a blog interview with the press, she said, “In another life, I would have been a naturalist or an entomologist. I love how intricate insects’ lives are … [they] represent ephemerality to me. … Ephemera are things only enjoyed for a short period of time.”
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