42opus
is an online magazine of the literary arts.
24 August 2008 | Vol. 8, No. 2
Hinged Double Sonnet for the Luna Moths
– Norton Island, Maine
For ten days now, two luna moths remain
silk-winged and lavish as a double broach
pinned beneath the porch light of my cabin.
Two of them, patinaed that sea-glass green
of copper weather vanes nosing the wind,
the sun-lit green of rockweed, the lichen's
green scabbing-over of the bouldered shore,
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