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Luna Moth….
…I’d read the facts—the one week lifespan,
The way, because they do not eat,
The adults have no need of a mouth – by the time
I found the third, late last night,
High on the wall of my kitchen.
I’d had too much to drink. I spoke to it
As if it were my own Buddhist teacher
Here to teach me nonattachment,
The illusions of hunger, sex, rampant need.
I sat with it until the sun rose, toasting
Its quick beauty, then the restfulness I found
In its body and then those bright-eyed,
Translucent green wings that seemed
To breathe more and more slowly before going
Motionless. When I lifted it in my hand
I knew just how little the space was
Between myself and nothingness.
Robert Cording
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