CONSTELLATION
BIO
Michael Díaz Feito is a Cuban-American writer from Miami, Florida. He attended the University of Miami and recently earned a master's degree in medieval studies at Fordham University. He currently lives in Inwood, Manhattan, with his girlfriend and their dog Finn.
A firefly, bumbling through
the bathroom window(frosted glass
lowered to let out the steam),
fell into our bathtub.
It swashed in some water
there, and I thought, There
is less time, for us, for non-
digitized pleasure, or,
that is,
real things.
When I, unthinking, then euthanized it
by grinding my bare heel into the tub,
luminescent bits flew,
a scatterplot
reflected, stars
in the dirty
puddles
left from a shower, lightly
lighting the hot,
dark room.
She and I argued about that word:
Is it a firefly, or, as I say,
a lightning bug?
(Florida taxonomy.)
So we texted my mom to settle it.
But she really knew
only cocuyo.