Don’t moths only take to the air
when they emerge from darkness?
I wrote a poem 40 years ago
that yes was a silly rhyming
flight in long ago light
but in the last 22 years
I’ve dipped and dodged
my smoke and cinder ending
showing a few lyrical moves
that a few have applauded
as most clowns like to do
to keep from showing
their inevitably
unscripted
demise