firefly.

she took an invisible jar,

and took an invisible lid,

she put it on the jar,

but it did not fit.

she took an invisible jar,

she walked around the grassless land,

she bent to pick flowers,

but they were not born yet.

she took an invisible jar,

she spun round with it

in her hand

in a vacuum.

she took an invisible jar,

she imagined the night sky

with all its disappearing stars

and watched them drop down.

into her jar,

into her space,

into a nonexistent place

inside her

grassless land

unborn

hand in a night sky

all stars

disappearing

under a lid

that would not fit.