Happy Independence Day, to all the Americans out there. And to all the rest of you … enjoy your freedoms too.
In that vein …
“fireflies are indeed a fascinating topic. of course, they allow total freedom.”
— Scott Metz
1-4.
on the same wind
fireworks
and fireflies
shining
as if you weren’t there
fireflies
fireflies
spending the night
for the first time
the moon
waxing and waning
fireflies
5-8.
never to know
about fireflies
mayflies
bees
wits unsettled
by fireflies
reciting
multiplication tables
fireflies
fever dream
a thousand fireflies
breathing
9-12.
death
the consolation of
fireflies
white pebbles
imagining the afterlives
of fireflies
bitter oranges
spitting out the seeds
at fireflies
sweet jam
at the breakfast table
last night’s fireflies
13-16.
trust
a hand cupped
around a firefly
innocence
spending money
on fireflies
ignorance
looking away
from fireflies
chained men
the light from
fireflies
Red Dragonfly 
Hi Melissa, love these two especially:
reciting
multiplication tables
fireflies
&
sweet jam
at the breakfast table
last night’s fireflies
Just perfect observations, really captured two moments that are made more vivid by the flies but have such simple, human bases.
Ashley
wow. so many of these are stunning. you had me at the first one. the first three awed me into silence.
and then i remembered my own vision.
fireflies
above the creek
a roadway
Ashley & Wrick — Thanks so much! I’m glad some of these spoke to you.
Wrick — Yours left me speechless too. 🙂 From above, watching traffic flow down a highway at night …
Maybe the reason (one of them anyway) fireflies fascinate us so much is that they seem like a bridge between the natural world and the artificial. Something besides us that makes its own light.