Miscreations by Grant Loveys

Author:Grant Loveys
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ECW Press
Published: 2020-03-26T00:00:00+00:00

The Moth and the Porchlight

Long after you’ve gone,

I ask the moth about the porchlight

and he swears he has a choice.

The moth admits being smitten,

that he loves its glowing heart,

loves locking into its orbit

and watching his shadow’s path trace

the tattered edges of his dreams,

where they bleed into the present

and mingle into future.

But he doesn’t say the word need once.

He’ll get there on his own soon enough,

after he’s seen circulatory systems

in skeleton trees and the pollen in spring

as the dust on his wings, or rested

his head on the church of your chest

and heard the beat of waves

breaking on the altar.

That’s when he’ll discover

the universe speaks in symmetry

and that all things within it:

the moth and the porchlight,

you and I,

are just halves searching for their whole.

For now though,

the dawn rises fishbelly pink

and when the porchlight goes out

the moth drifts away, unmoored.

I know we’ll talk again,

because the days always moult their gold

and devolve into evening’s stew

only to live once more,

reborn as an old-bone moon,

and the porchlight will blink back into being.

And again I’ll wait for him

to finally ask what happens

when the light goes out for good,

and I’m forced to confess

I had always been counting on you

to let me know.

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