Fireflies Frenzy

As dusk fades into night

A firefly is blinking on the back screen door,

It's a call I can't ignore

As I step out the door

Fireflies invade the night shade

under a canopy of trees

Prime time, prime place to be

Behold the antics of a curious bug,

excitation in illumination, theirs and mine

laser tracers, neon racers

darting, streaking tangents of light

rapid blinkers on outgoing flights

but sometimes they linger;

hanging beams mid air, hanging lanterns in trees,

gliding above the grass and frolicing in the fields

sometimes, when they swarm, it's a neural storm

each light a neuron firing in the gaps of synapse

My skull cap tingles in this synchronous mirror

sometimes they ascend gracefully slow, but oh

hold on to that glow

Or fall right out of the sky, micro meteors speeding to the ground

Some will launch straight up to the treetops,

to commune with the stars

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