At dusk, they start to show up. Little flashes of light zipping around above the uncut lawn, or in the trees of your back yard. The Lampyridae beetles – or fireflies – start in the summer months in Texas, hailing a new season of warmth even after the sun goes down.
Fireflies
Take a seat
Here
Perhaps atop Mt Bonell
Perhaps your own cozy
Porch swing
Watch that sun dip
That sky blaze
Like the air itself is alight
With color
And then, when the sun has finished
Its grand show
Oh, don’t leave
No the night
Is just getting
Started
Because here
In this now-dark world
Just wait, and let yourself
Focus…
Ah yes, there –
And there –
Those hovering, blinking
Bits of light
Like the stars themselves
Have come
To life.
Produced by Laura Rice.
