Winter Writing Sanctuary, 1.2. Changing your perspective, Invitation D: Small Stories

 

Dragonfly, or

A Six-Month Life

 

Is there anything else 

other than flight? 

Catching prey 

in the basket of 

my legs and 

keeping the 

swarm

alive. 

Perhaps. 

The pond and 

the garden are 

my universe 

and the many 

ways that 

light enters 

and glances 

off my wings. 

This spark, this 

corner, this 

wheel, the 

delight of 

diving briefly 

into the water. 

And then. 

And then, everything 

depends on

the weather.

Is there any 

other time but

now?

Justine C. Tajonera

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