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Tyranny of Moths

Tyranny of Moths

By Gerald Vizenor b. 1934 Gerald Vizenor

feathery moths

flutter on the screen

unbearable

sounds of summer

oblivious tonight

that my reading light

is not my day

stout bodies

cut and bounce

near a crack

in the screen

and beat inside

a paper shade

sacraments

of a monumental

natural presence

we are drawn

forever

by the moths

to other lights

neighbors

down the road

Gerald Vizenor, “Tyranny of Moths” from Almost Ashore. Copyright © 2006 by Gerald Vizenor. Reprinted by permission of Salt Publishing.

Source: Almost Ashore (Salt Publishing, 2006)

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Poet Gerald Vizenor b. 1934

POET’S REGION U.S., Southwestern

Subjects Nature, Animals, Arts & Sciences, Reading & Books

Poetic Terms Free Verse