Ghosts in the Orchard
Sunday, July 22, 2012 at 11:05PM
Velvet Snoutingdingle

The family came to stay, and the Olds and those enfeebled by drink needed beds so I slept in the Orchard. Having reason to walk back to the house in the night, I found myself surrounded by ghostly white plumed moths shaped like crucifixes, their beautiful frilled wings like the opposite of motes of soot in the moonlight as I stirred them from the moonlit grass.

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