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MOTHS

Arthur Gottlieb

Crazy for the blazing midnight
bulb, they come bumping
the summer screen in furious
fluttering furry blurs,
scraping the rough mesh.

If I put a match to the whole house
hundreds would fly into the fire
like religious fanatics,
leaping, and dancing as the intense
heat cracked their wings.

Then they’d smolder in the embers
like the ash of a burnt-out passion.

I wish I had a fraction of their flame.
I’d snap off the lamp and let
my luster shine on in the dark.

But there are some others
more practiced and down to earth
who sneak in and nest in the soft
folds of cloth in the closet.

Pulling the wool over their eyes,
they wait until their hatched eggs
eat their way out of my blue serge suits
and into the busting yellow beams

of another summer.

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