Tag Archives: fireflies

3 forms on luck

Posted on April 13, 2021 by whimsygizmo

that copper taste in a disappointed mouth (a shadorma)  the stench of burnt birthday candle and lost wish,burned-out star that crashes before it’s caught. fireflies dead in jars.   falling stars (a triolet)  do they count themselves lucky, tooas they fall like fire from the sky? with their … Continue reading →

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I’m ’Bout to Build a TreeHouse

Posted on May 4, 2018 by whimsygizmo

… ’Cuz we need a place to be(e), a place for tree- age and sigh -lence. We’ll lace a ladder of purple fuzz and buzz, and the blizzard force of backward breeze. We’ll hiccup ………….(and down) and sneeze, and talk … Continue reading →

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When You Are Finished With Your Own Scar-Gazing

Posted on April 23, 2018 by whimsygizmo

, gather me a sinew-sky full of fireflies with intricate wings, no-more-questions; a place to hold my broken wishes, my brightest hope. A stone for keeping, knowing, throwing at my fears; a few years to breathe, be -lieve in my … Continue reading →

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Tiny Dragons and Gathered Lightning

Posted on April 13, 2018 by whimsygizmo

Dragonflies We can forgive them their lack of talons and fire for the sake of those stained glass window wings , and the way their damsels (in distress, in bright blue dress) flit and fly on by, rescued by the … Continue reading →

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Ash Sky, Falling

Posted on March 12, 2018 by whimsygizmo

The dark creeps deep, steeps my poemed breath in star-skin and silence. Once upon a time, you might have waited here with me, among these falling cherry blossom kites. This one last night. Now, I rise, leaving nothing behind but … Continue reading →

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Burn Before Reading

Posted on February 26, 2018 by whimsygizmo

, then sit by the firelight and bask in the glow. Form your own words of glass and sand and tempered phrase. Raise your hands to a burning moon; all these words are embers waiting, going somewhere soon. Watch them … Continue reading →

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fireflies

Posted on August 15, 2016 by whimsygizmo

image from here   .. we have held light in our very hands, crum -bled and smeared across our hungry skin. we have kept secrets ………(skeletal, haunting) counted them in the dark. we have collected shards of sharp and silent … Continue reading →

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Fort Pox

Posted on April 9, 2016 by whimsygizmo

.. We’re Quarantined with a capital Q, so tell ya what we’re gonna do. Gonna get some ploomfy blankets and books and snacks, gonna run ’em all through to the kitchen and back. Gonna add a jar of fireflies, too, … Continue reading →

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Garden, Party of One

Posted on June 6, 2015 by whimsygizmo

.. My sense of a-where-ness comes in small comforts – the shiny snake of a scar where a bad scrape has healed, the twigs braided into my hair after hiding under whispering trees. Come, catch a wayward fairy with me … Continue reading →

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Twist

Posted on June 4, 2015 by whimsygizmo

. My heart was a door left, a jar (of   fireflies  spent) and you slithered inside to steal their last smudged bit of glow. Oh, how these marbled hours do drag -on. Know that I am keeper of the lid … Continue reading →

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