Wednesday, June 25, 2025

sequence

the fireflies are out          summer visitors          their joyful            light        indirect          without accumulation            a shorthand          lighting up the continuum      they are          ghostwords           winking like secrets          and           adrift as passwords     unburdened by footprints    play         stay    and hold        even as       our dimensions fold
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(Also see Nance for the titles's connection to "sequins.")

Pic: Tiny turtle making its way up a rock on the Red Cedar. I seem to have one of these pictures every year... I'm fascinated by their progress.

4 comments:

Nicole said...

I have only seen fireflies in Mexico - beautiful!
I love turtles! There are a group of them in the pond near one of my walking routes.

Jenny said...

I love the poem. And what is this about declining firefly populations? We don't have them here in Florida- I'll have to make it my mission to look for them when I'm up north this summer.

Gillian said...

Nice.

StephLove said...

We have them in our back yard, but I don't think there are as many as even ten years ago.

North and I were sitting on the back steps watching a lone firefly recently (we eventually saw more) and North said to it, "I think you're going to find a girlfriend. You're so hot!"

sequence

the fireflies are out          summer visitors          their joyful            light        indirect          without accumulation         ...