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 Dragonfly on marsh grass near Sarpy Basin, Montana: photo by Boyd Norton (1936-) for the Environmental Protection Agency' project Documerica, June 1973  (U.S. National Archives)



If you are a simple mortal, do not speak
of tomorrow or how long this man may be
among the happy, for change comes suddenly
like the shining flight of a dragonfly.


Simonides of Ceos (c. 556-468 BC): Flux, translated by Willis Barnstone in Greek Lyric Poetry, 1962




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Kirby's Dropwing (Trithemis kirbyi), Tsumeb, Namibia: photo by Hans Hillewaert, 7 June 2007


shimmering day
haze of evanescence

at the rock pond
the red darters

and flame skimmers
gathering

slowly circulated
above the slowly

circulating koi


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Concrete pond stocked with ornamental fish [koi]: photo by Hardyplants, 17 January 2009

18th day
 
Today also,
in the spring haze,
today also.


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18th day: came dragonflies from pen...

18th day & dragonfly drawings: TC, from
Cold Spring: A Diary, 2000



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Ruby Meadowhawk Flame Skimmer (Libellula saturata), male: photo by Regular Daddy, May 2008

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Yellow-winged Darter (Sympetrum flaveolum)
: photo by André Karwath, 13 July 2005

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