Flying so fast just below the stars,
even standing still the wind couldn’t keep up.

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Sparrow | Passer domesticus

She calls from a landscape of obsession,
frozen fire blushing and blinking,
playing hide and seek with her suitors.

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Firefly | Lampyridae | Photinus pyralis

A hunter plays hide and seek with color,
misted berries like stolen carny balloons
concealing a siren’s secret appetite.

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Chinese Praying Mantis | Tenodera aridifolia sinensis

Running from the past, catching the wind
at sunrise, terraced waves battle for attention,
washing souls clean.

Building the spine of the universe,
an orbweaver studies string theory
while rounding up wayward stars.

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Orchard Orbweaver | Leucauge venusta

A blazing aeronaut traces a fireball
through my garden as the sun
dazzles her wings.

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Honey bee | Apis mellifera

Songbird Theater:
Two molls bicker, a friendship ruptures,
airborne and desperate, doing whatever they can
to stay one step ahead of the law.

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Sparrow | Passer domesticus

Closing her eyes, sipping
an aster cocktail, a Cabbage White
mocks the heat in the garden of Ra.

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Cabbage White butterfly | Pieris rapae

Too many legs to count, a meandering millipede
dances to the music of the spheres
while hiding from a cold moon.

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Myriapod | Millipede