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Fireflies

Sharing stories in the understory
They fly as they flash
and they tell their tale
Each statement ends in ellipses
Everywhere everywhere dot dot dots
of bright trailing through the brush
Each story to be continued…

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C. M. Gille dwells in the center of the Venn Diagram between science and art. A college biology professor by trade, she writes poetry about the beauty and bewilderment of nature and human nature. She is currently working on her first collection of poetry titled Outward.

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