Dawn Schout’s most recent poem to appear here was “Twilight” (December 2016)

Firefly
By Dawn Schout

You hold blackness,
air, me in your hands.
I can make my own light,
my own darkness, too.
Take a peek if you dare.
What draws you to me, so still, silent,
weightless. If you didn’t peek
you couldn’t be sure
I’m here.
I brush my feet across your skin
to let you know I am.
You lift a finger, create a hole
in the cave, a tunnel of light.
Let your fingers come
undone, those walls fall, to get
a better look at me.
I promise to stay
for a second.