Monday, July 24, 2017

s i c i l y

She recalled her aunt swaying on the table, high above her, as the temblor struck.

After the earthquake, her grandfather, defiant, took a tarp to the shore, to his fishing boat, and slept there.

Through the night, her family's mountain campfire echoed her grandfather's beach hearth, far below.

Saturday, July 22, 2017

Agrilus  - largest number of species in the animal kingdom about 300


Agrilus cyanescens













Lampyridae  Coleoptera.
















lazuli bunting but an insect
it crawls iridescent on the white floor
or
flies
tipped out into the green garden
wild as a wood.

This lamp-ended beetle
greets me at my door 
as do spiders,
doormen discriminants.

cool air
blue
lit
me
home.