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# amateur entomology
- URL: https://www.fsm.ink/amateur-entomology/
- Published: 2023-09-01T21:49:45.000Z
- Updated: 2026-06-03T18:29:33.000Z
- Author: Staff
- Tags: Poetry, #Import 2026-08-03 09:59

*by Kate Gargo*

we kissed in the chaotic dusk,  
air clotted with throaty incantations -  
cicadas congregating in trees,  
crickets chanting from the underbrush.

  
we’d whisper beneath the beetle black sky,  
scratching mosquito bites until they’d scab & scar.  
you promised me monarchs meandering among the monarda,  
bumblebees glut with nectar, pollen-laden legs  
slumbering in squash blossoms.

  
our love became fireflies locked in a jam jar,  
blinking distress signals into the doomed night -  
belly up by dawn. i pin your thorax  
to a polystyrene board, study what went wrong.

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Kate Gargo is a poet, storyteller, and nature enthusiast from Appleton, Wisconsin.