Article: End of season.(Poem)

End of season 
 
K.E. Duffin 
 
For some, it's an undulating flock linked 
by a thread and fleeing a sudden cold snap, 
or the gnarled hands of fallen leaves on the brink 
of the tawny underworld, fingering a map. 
 
For me, it's an autumn lightning bug that crawls, 
dragging a belly of chilled luciferin, 
no longer one of the syrupy stars, loosened 
from a brilliant summer constellation. It stalls, 
 
slowly raises the housing of its wings,  ...

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