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What the firefly does not want
is to be flipped over,
examined, scrutinized.
Pull out her light, her allure,
her mystery, and she is just a bug.
Deflowered by the fingernail of a child
or pinned by the science of a man,
it is the same. She has been touched,
attached, struggling under sin
and she is ruined.
What the firefly does want
is to float, suspended in time,
blinking with the pulse of nature;
aloof, unaware, unburdened.
To trap her in a jar
would be to change the percussion of the earth.
The rhythm fades
into a faint, but sudden change in the music.
