River of heat scours
the arid world
whispering
into purple night secret
lights rise sparking
like tiny angels startling
as peacocks flaunting
their unmanageable
burden of lush plumage
(c) 2019, by Hannah Six
Image: Kobayashi Kiyochika, Fireflies at Ochanomizu (1880)
color woodblock print, via Wikimedia Commons
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