Dina Folgia
longing
today I saw five ladybugs / red hemispheres / lingering on the glass
luck constellating / connecting lines between / their dotted bodies
netting my attention / I haven’t seen / a ladybug in months so why
are there so many / I trace patterns with my fingers / smudging the pane
with sun-stained skin / I don’t know if you can wish / on ladybugs but
I do know that luck / comes far between these days / so I shut my eyes
usually when I see a streak / across a moonless sky / or release a fuzz
into the drifting wind / I pray for my sanity back / but there on my dust
caked sheets / I wish for something else / because by god
I would rather / have her
luck constellating / connecting lines between / their dotted bodies
netting my attention / I haven’t seen / a ladybug in months so why
are there so many / I trace patterns with my fingers / smudging the pane
with sun-stained skin / I don’t know if you can wish / on ladybugs but
I do know that luck / comes far between these days / so I shut my eyes
usually when I see a streak / across a moonless sky / or release a fuzz
into the drifting wind / I pray for my sanity back / but there on my dust
caked sheets / I wish for something else / because by god
I would rather / have her
Biography
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Dina Folgia (she/her) is an MFA candidate at Virginia Commonwealth University. Her work, which has been nominated for Best of the Net and the AWP Intro Journals Project, has appeared in Ninth Letter, Dunes Review, Stonecoast Review, Sidereal Magazine, Kissing Dynamite Poetry, and others. She is a poetry reader for Blackbird and Storm Cellar. Keep up with her work at https://dinafolgia.com/
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