Firefly

Out in the garden

Light enough to see verdant green

Warmly wafting

And the softness

Of humid

Summer

Cicadas sing

While

Evening’s light

Palest blue

Effervescent

Sky

Hung with

Droplets Invisible

Pre dusk

Opens

A stage

For this air whirling

Arabesque

Of bioluminesce

Alight

With her own delight

Daft

And daring

Gentle

And full of updraft

And surprise

I see your fairy body pause

Hover

Twirl

Sashe

Pauses

In front of me

So I can say

Oh my

Aren’t you lovely!

Blessed sight

Humble ballerina

You dance before my eye

Then you light up

And your choir too

Another and another

A solo

And another solo

And another

Til all become flashes

Notes in a visual song

I heard we could have had sound

Carried in a photon

Light phone

Whether its true

Or no

I am sure

We are sister and brother

Because of how I feel

When you show

Your natural elucidation

Of movement and light

I watch in delight

As you dance in the liminal between day and night

By Alicia Kwon 2025