What can I write about fireflies
That hasn’t been written afore.
Embarrassed,
I don’t even know how these
Wee creatures make light?

What are they really,
Christmas wishes?

Or slices of lightening ?
Why not “surprise bugs”
Or a dream exploding?

To learn
I’ll become one,
Fly the midnight sky,
Skirt the earth
Listening for
Sighs of delight.

Yes, I’ll join
Their circus of light.
Catch
Star
Dust
Outside my sleep-room’ s window.
Grandly deciding to take off.
Never to return again.

Charlene James-Duguid
Amissville, Virginia
July 9, 2018