Potential Titles: Firefly

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Into the small chambers that flicker like fireflies - William Archila "Little soul lost, little shining ghost"

Fireflies mocking the false alchemy of ever and elsewhere - Mary Jo Bang "What Was Seen"

To worship idols or mimic fireflies - Maxwell Bodenheim "The Sword Converses with a Philosopher"

Luminous and solitary as a firefly - Jaswinder Bolina "Panjandrum"

And lighted alone by the firefly's lamp - F.B.C. "The Quadrupeds' Pic-Nic"

Quenched the firefly's glimmering spark - Ceiriog "Daybreak" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

Amid the persistence of fireflies - Shutta Crum "How Poetry Reframes the Moment"

A wee spore adrift among the fireflies - Dante Di Stefano "Green Burial Unsonnet"

The impossible hope of the firefly - Camille T. Dungy "Characteristics of Life"

Blind except for the fireflies - Conrad Hilberry "Path to the Cabin"

This night again will watch its fireflies - Jane Hirshfield "Solstice"

Cast a firefly radiance down the deep - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "Inlet and Shore"

The dreaminess of swamps & fireflies - Angel Leal "The Witch Recalls Her Craft"

Fireflies glow with their particular sorrow - Ruth Madievsky "Electrons"

A fragile firefly with her lantern - Christopher Morgan "The Lantern Runner"

A firefly desolate, bereft of home - Francis Neilson "Jack O'Lantern"

Your bloody firefly eyes - Pablo Neruda "Furies and Sorrows" translated by Donald D. Walsh

The forests lit by fireflies - Pablo Neruda "The Human Condition" transl. by Alastair Reid

Brother to the firefly - Effie Lee Newsome "Morning Light"

As the firefly lights the night - Effie Lee Newsome "Morning Light"

Foxes, feathers and fireflies - Margaret Noodin "Cream City/Doodooshabo'enaande Oodena " transl. by the author

Followed here my own forgetting of the fireflies - Cynthia Dewi Oka "American Abyss"

Prove no more than fireflies in a jar - Ann K. Schwader "A Voyage(r) Too Far"

A firefly threading the darkness - Tu Fu "Restless Night" transl. by Burton Watson

Fireflies strung through sapphired air - Ocean Vuong "Into the Breach"

Only then do the fireflies enter - Lauren K. Watel "The Last Act"

The still ecstasy of the firefly - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"

Marking off paths between fireflies - Cecilia Woloch "Slow Children at Play"

Tungsten for the fireflies' freeze tag - Cynthia Zarin "Summer"


The spectral traces of lightning bugs - Joseph O. Legaspi "Childhood Elegy"


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