Tied,
the bow-tie looks
like a butterfly,
and it’s called that
in many tongues:
the French say papillon.
Unravelled,
each end resembles a thistle flower.
Some tongues call it that.
Unravelled, it looks
like a shoelace gone wrong/puffed up –
un lacet maltourne/bouffant –
in a word, a bloomer, une bourde.
I say, ‘Probably, only MY tongue
has called it that.’
(‘bloomer’ and ‘bourde’ –
‘… called it those’,
I suppose.)
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