Moth Terror

In this haunting modernist poem, de Casseres explores the ancient symbiosis between destruction and desire. The moth, drawn helplessly toward flame, becomes a figure for something far more unsettling: the way living beings court their own annihilation, mistaking incineration for illumination. With stark, imagistic language, the poem captures the terror not of the fire itself, but of the irresistible pull toward it, the inability to look away, the strange pleasure found in approaching ruin. This is poetry as incantation, dark and rhythmic, where the reader feels the heat before understanding why. For those who love verse that unsettles rather than comforts, that lingers like smoke in memory, "Moth Terror" offers a visceral meditation on attraction, consumption, and the flames we cannot stop following.