A long-dead moth, sunburned
to a brown wrapping paper facsimile
of Moth, depends upside down
by a back leg from a drop line
of spider silk between the kitchen
window and the screen. Desiccated,
not eviscerated, a spider toy,
a mobile. God’s playthings, too,
hang, turn, and dry out into death.
God in All of This
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About the Author
Sheryl Loeffler
Sheryl Loeffler is a Canadian writer and musician. Her poetry has been published in literary magazines in Canada, the USA, the UK, Austria, and Japan. In 2005, she moved to the Mediterranean island of Malta, returning to Canada in 2006. In May 2014, A Land in the Storytelling Sea, her book of poems, prose poems, and photographs born in and about Malta, was published by FARAXA Publishing, Rabat, Malta. She was elected to membership in the League of Canadian Poets in 2015.She was resident at the colony for two months in 2017. She was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2019.
