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moth and the firefly

By Madeleine Bassett-Chan


these insubstantial wings open and close like the petals

of a silvered tulip,

velveteen in the dark and half as permanent. a kind of fragile mourning is

pulsing arterial in the firefly’s light,

and in the liquid depth of the moth’s eye

luminous drumbeats invite a martyr’s eclipse

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