Listen to the world’s best poetry read out loud.

1

The summer fireflies

The image-field of this poem

By standing water

Light breaking all around me

Into a million pieces

2

Green lamps of summer

Deep, undisturbed reverie

So I follow them

Pockmarks in the dark

These holy dashes of light

3 

Stock still in starbreath

Air soft, the flightless females

My unlit body

The mind going where it goes

Though the eye will pluck and close