July 14, 2023

Fireflies

I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many fireflies as I have when we’re on Long Island, a place I had never really thought of as being beautiful until I married someone from there and saw—of course it is, and isn’t, like everywhere.

C. told me the fireflies are disappearing. I tried, gently, to catch one in my hands and thought what I’d tell someone who’d never seen them. They were like a hundred little stars, like an airplane in the sky at night. Blinking on and off, here I am.