Twinkling Seas At Fireflies
Personal memory by Lexi Shimkonis
2005 CE • Pennsylvania, USA
Where I grew up in southeast PA, there used to be twinkling seas at fireflies. Now when I go back in the summer there are less fireflies and they come out later in the summer.
Memory submitted at Maya Lin: A Study of Water, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, 2022
Image: John Brandauer via Flickr, Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
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