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DRAGONFLY

 

I am a god, a membranous whirl, a powerful thruster, brilliant, whose origin is the Nile.  I am a foe of the land-logged, of those wizened by angers.

 

I emerge one night from a dead skin with new wings to glisten in the moon and shall live for a summer.

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(For full text see the Kindle ebook The Nature of Things (Collected Poems) by Alan Marshfield)

  

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