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.")
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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."
Oh, this poem!
I love how the line break mimics the flashing of the fireflies and the few random rhymes that emphasize that pulsating cadence.
The metaphors of ghostwords, secrets, and passwords--I love how these add to the mystery of fireflies and even the character of summertime itself, when time is stretchier and looser.
It's so good, maya.
Are there no fireflies at all by you, Nicole? Might it be because you go to bed early?
Whoa! I thought there were fireflies everywhere!
Thanks!
I'm laughing so hard! Please thank North!
I love them too, Jeanie. The first summer evening I see them is always so magical.
I think they're the same--just different names :). (But just a feeling, Google might have more intel.)
Max and Huck don't care either... I'm so glad to hear you say you've seen more this year. It's contrary to other reports. But I know you, so that makes a difference :).
Thank you, Suzanne. I thought fireflies were ubiquitous because I saw them growing up in India too...
Thank you, Nance <3
(The whoop I let out when I read this! )
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