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.")
8 comments:
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.
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.
Nice.
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!"
I was noticing the fireflies a couple of nights ago when Rick and I were eating outside. I love their dance.
Beautiful poem. We have fireflies in NJ or are those lightning bugs?... or are they the same thing? More stuff for me to google :)
This has been the year of lightning bugs for me. I've seen more this year than I have in my entire adult life, I think. I am delighted by this - Hannah does not care.
I love fireflies! We didn't have them where I grew up but they are common in my current part of the world. So magical!
I love "ghostwords" and your use of "continuum."
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