Bloomer Poem by Douglas Scotney

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.)