NOCTURNE · EDITION Ⅹ · THE COMMON GLOW-WORM Cold Light By three the thin moon has set; the grass keeps a cold light of its own — a wingless beetle that never feeds, spending her whole brief summer to climb, to shine, and to be found in the dark. Ⅰ Ⅱ Ⅲ Lampyris noctiluca Wingless, she climbs; it is the only way she has to rise, and spends her whole brief summer as a single cold green light — and the dark, being dark enough, finds her. The lamp goes out. nocturne · edition x · cold light made in the small hours — tomorrow, another dark