Tag: moths
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Shoelace Ritual with Fog Milk and Hemlock Pocket
Shoelace Ritual with Fog Milk and Hemlock PocketSometimes I dream:That I was trying to walk the crosswalk and my shoelaces turned into tiny serpents that tried to bind my ankles to the white lines.I tried to unlace them, leave them in the street, but each knot undid re-knotted into more vipersstreaming confetti fire from their…
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a ladybug, cicadas, bumblebees,a butterfly and moths: portrait of a marriage in stasis.
(Poem should be read horizontally to show original formatting)The ladybug climbed the porcelain salt column,on my breakfast table, heading to a nowhere heaven with confidence, its beauty rounding and rounding the rim- delivering the message of herself in its tiny being. I admired this bug that did not crave the darkness,or need not crawl headfirst…
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Moths
Luna moths flutter in the captive night light of early December, strong, determined to mate their way to the electric crackle (invisible as a secret trapped in the soul) emitting from the machine in the eaves. Their disintegration illuminates the dark with ultraviolet pulses and heavy musk drifting to mouthless, abandoned mates, antennae feeling…