w/ firefly abdomens that you wired together
       using veins stripped from a magpie’s throat

       your own knowledge of aboriginal physic.
       You hung this like chandelier. Each time light

       switched on you saw new weeds. I followed
       their roots but couldn’t find more fireflies.

Jerrod E. Bohn has an MFA in poetry from Colorado State University. His work has appeared or is soon forthcoming in Phoebe, alice blue, FRiGG, Cleaver, SPECS, smoking glue gun, Watershed Review, and elsewhere. A full-length poetry book, Animal Histories, is forthcoming from Unsolicited Press. He currently lives in Fort Collins, teaching yoga and community college writing courses.
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