fireflies
raze
suddenly
they're
everywhere
.
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...
ovenbird
We
wander
out
into
the
night
in
order
to
seek
the
light
:
my
parents
,
my
children
,
and
me
.
In
a
wide
open
, sparsely treed
field
we
let
our
eyes
adjust
to
what
darkness
the
city
provides.
We
grumble
about
headlights
and
streetlights
but
there
is
enough
shadow
to
see
by
.
In
the
blackest
silhouettes
we
see
the
impossibly
bright
flash
of
fireflies.
My
father
catches
one
in
the
basin
of
his
hands
and
my
daughter
falls
in
love
with
the
soul
illuminating
the
life
line
cutting
across
her
grandfather’s
palm
.
This
beetle
full
of
sparks crawls
onto
her
wrist
and
finds
its
way
into
her
shirt
sleeve
, glowing
in
the
cave
of
her
cotton
t
-shirt.
Her
eyes
glow
in
greeting
.
Her
smile
is
a
star
.
The
heat
of
the
day
has
not
dissipated
and
sheet
lightning
streaks
across
the
sky
answering
the
firefly
’s morse_code.
Against
an
electric
sweep
of
cloud
a
bat
dips
low
.
My
son
sees
it
first
—the
erratic
flap,
the
black
that
is
blacker
than
the
night
.
We
all
exclaim
in
wonder
.
In
the
middle
of
an
eastern border
city
we
see
things
we
never
see
in
all
the
west coast
wilderness
.
The
heat
holds
us
,
we
hold
the
fragile
light
,
our
heads
bent
low
to
see
magic
cupped
in
a
gentle
palm
make
a
circle
that
cannot
be
broken
.
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...
ancasa.reyn
the
mention
of
fireflies
always
brings
on
a
couple
of
memories
one
is
of
my
youth
we
neighbourhood
kids
would
chase
them
put
them
in
jars
and
worse
with
no
thought
to
the
bugs' sentience
the
second
is
of
a
trip
i
made
with
my
roommate
to
the
new
river
gorge
in
west
virginia
during
our
return
the
backdrop
of
the
dark
hills
of
southern ohio
and
even
darker
sky
were
blanketed
in
flashing
lights
by
the
thousands
maybe
tens
of
thousands
for
one
of
the
more
glorious
few
minutes
of
my
lifetime
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