A snail stranded in slow time, one of many
stops along a winding garden road.

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Brown garden snail | Cornu aspersum

Waiting for cupid, she releases old photons
into the night, commanding lovers
to change direction.

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Firefly | Lampyridae | Photinus pyralis

Flying too close to the sun,
closing her eyes,
a thousand stars burn.

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Honey bee | Apis mellifera

The newest mantis in a rush to meet the new world,
unsure if she is predator or prey.
The mantids started emerging yesterday. A busy spring,
500 egrets and thousands of mantis babies.

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Chinese mantis | Tenodera aridifolia sinensis

After her shadow went missing, an ant
is stranded between worlds, a slave
to the spell of circles.

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Pavement ant | Tetramorium caespitum

A young runaway in a new world, a Dog-day Cicada
wakes the sky from its sleep.

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Dog-day Cicada | Tibicen canicularis

Pulling the strings of the night, a Jewel spider
captures angels lost in every dark corner.

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Jewel spider | Gasteracantha cancriformis

A beacon lights the way to a future summer,
so much music, so much silence.

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Firefly | Lampyridae | Photinus pyralis

A yellow probe collects the fire of the sun,
leaving behind a bright flash of elegance.

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Honey bee | Apis mellifera

Newborn mantids escape their womb,
doppelgänger sisters ready to bewitch
an unsuspecting world.

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Chinese mantis | Tenodera aridifolia sinensis