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Moth.(Poem)

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| July 01, 2003 | Schneider, Myra | COPYRIGHT 2003 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

 
MOTH 
 
   Not crazily circling a plump pear 
   whose bright scorch it can't resist 
   but resting on a fullblown peony papering 
   the wall behind my bedside lamp: small 
   white wings textured like embroidery threads. 
 
   That such a creature should enter, spend 
   the night with me is a privilege. Next morning 
   it's gone and absence inhabits me until 
   I spot it on a banister: the glossy silks 
   of its opened fan, each edge scalloped. 
 
   The Internet, which answers everything, brings up 
   moths in surprising fur hoods, cloaks that dance 
   with speckles but not my visitor so I return 
   to its spread pages, make out a shape 
   curvaceous as a mermaid in a shining body suit, 
 
   ...

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