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Fireflies
Tonight my yard is full of fireflies— a glitterfest of green, blinking by hundreds, exactly like last year, when she and I drove out into the Missouri countryside to talk about our marriage. It was thick with greenery. The air was hot and thick, and we had decided to try and stay together, though by first light she'd changed her mind again, and, to be honest, our eleventh hour hope and promise lacked the weight of truth. We wandered off the rocky dirt road over weeds and brambles, through branches and spiderwebs, and pressed into a clearing, and it was like a pocket in the darkness that surrounded us-the misty night backlit with thousands of glittering fireflies bettering the stars. It was a mating dance, and we gazed into a sputtering green sea of desire-such irresistible beckoning. Ours was, too-a death-dance of mating, a slower, indecisive tarantella, and she asked me never to write about this, but I knew then that I had nothing to lose, that at that moment there was nothing I wanted more than to write about the fireflies.
Richard Newman
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:hi:
RL
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