Marc Frazier
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Marc Frazier has widely published poetry in journals including The Spoon River Poetry Review, ACM, f(r)iction, The Gay and Lesbian Review, Slant, Permafrost, Plainsongs, and Poet Lore. Marc, a Chicago-area, LGBTQ writer is the recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Award for poetry and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and a “best of the net.” He has appeared in the anthology New Poets from the Midwest. Marc’s three poetry collections are available online.
All Evening the Luna Moths
ponder the inevitable—their short stay in the physical realm
each spring and early summer their large, translucent wings
seeing through—an auspice
their white bodies barely here
the moon moth few ever see
crescent in the eyespot of its wings
pinkish long legs, ghosts of a ballerina dancing
what will we say if we spot one by chance?
how can we not think of any life’s purpose
what ties us to the physical world?
this luna moth lives for about a week
its leaving imminent
when adult, it no longer feeds as if the body is already spirit
the earth a sanctum where she lays her eggs
and dies, or does she?
eggs hatch into caterpillars
which body holds me to earth and for how long
the one you can barely see,
the one I insist on?
all evening the moths persist
an irony—eyespots and long tails on their hind legs
confuse predators as if their survival
is as important as ours
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