End of Summer




End of Summer

Bats fly in blind loops.
I have confused them with my fire.

It is a fine, practical fire. It is not lit by
melodramatic kindling: Crumpled letters, torn-up photos.

A kamikaze moth dives. An errant ember
ignites her washi paper wings.


– Teresa Kiplinger





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