Tiffany Noonan
How I wonder
what you are
with palms cupped.
Little bug bottle.
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Bodies tar-black
against sunset. July’s
children come home
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star-handed. Fireflies
wave on — off —
on. Fingers curl
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like aster petals.
Hands open. Light
escapes toward me.
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Moving now. Faster.
We become the
lamps that remain.