At Risk of Sentiment
1
She
A lighting bug in Florida
There
but shouldn’t be.
2
Flashes outside
a darkened lanai
above
saw palmetto and bamboo.
3
She
a Tennessee firefly
synchronizing its flashes
on cycle with fertile
glowworms.
4
No longer a Japanese
light display
trapped under yards of
mosquito netting
she could almost
climb through taped
windows.
5
She
watching wild pigs
come to a highway’s edge
to feed on crisp white
sprouts.
6
There used to be more
butterflies, she said,
There
Whether she should be
Or not.
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