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May/June 2016 • Vol. XXXVIII No. 3 • Nature's Nature |

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By Kimiko Hahn

      Like Professor Sara Lewis  I view the meadow as a stage for

passion and yearning    courtship duets and competitions for affection
  cruel deception and gruesome death

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Kimiko Hahn
Kimiko Hahn’s tenth collection of poetry Foreign Bodies will be out in 2020. She teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation, Queens College, City University of New York.

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VII

By Kimiko Hahn

I never sat around my backyard the night before      heading off to Belize      to study coral reefs                      unlike Professor Sara Lewis and      I would not have compared firefly   sexual […]

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By Kimiko Hahn

The predator Photuris firefly  sometimes  stages aerial assaults, picking out other species by their flashes and swooping down to attack and other times    sits on a blade of grass, responding […]

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