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“Moth Silver Shimmer” by Tim Reisert

The night we packed
the car a moth
fluttered around the
bright kitchen,
had slipped inside
before the screendoor flap.
I followed in chase
with open but slow
palms and when
I swooped underneath it
and closed my hand,
felt its wings
against my fingers
now held tight
not tight enough
for it flew again,
up by the cupboards
and the fruit bowl,
its flight crooked, its
moth silver shimmer
on my hand.

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