three heart-showings of a moth,
through which it can be loved or lashed:
its poetry,
its rituals,
and its lantern

and the mirror
not her waking,
aching body showed,
but endless forms,
from feathered fractal
edges spilling out
a snowstorm
swirling silent
in her eyes
three heart-showings of a moth,
through which it can be loved or lashed:
its poetry,
its rituals,
and its lantern