The Stars Like Glowworms

Have you ever seen a glowworm? I have – one time on my parents’ driveway.

Here is a beautiful poem by for this Monday. It  was included in the Fall Issue of Woolgathering Magazine. 

Enjoy!

The Stars Like Glowworms

By Candice Marley Conner

Cover me

           my bare feet and face

           the turning leaves

           these mistflowers and goldenrod and asters

in waning sunshine,

as the nights grow longer, taking

back her space as she

makes way for

lightning bug larvae,

glowworms, who glimmer 

along the hidden creek 

that gurgles over stones

and fallen leaves

once green,

now glistening wet and dark.

The water moving, unable

(and unwilling) to be still, all

the same able to reflect

the autumnal night sky.

The stars glint like glowworms

and the creek moves like the Milky Way,

my face as the new moon.