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I think of how the narrow blue bodies
of the dragonfly ancestors
once skimmed clear lakes—
over a hundred million years
before the great diplodocus
came to wade—
how they flew through the Permian,
the Cretaceous, through mornings,
through meteors, through floods,
through to the Holocene, to now.
How much change they have seen
before coming to balance here
on the reeds beside me,
their bodies like thin blue proofs
of resilience, endurance, constancy.
Meanwhile, the sun is disappearing
below the horizon.
Meanwhile this heart, too,
is learning to adapt, to become
something as surprising as beauty
that survives great challenge,
something as durable, as delicate
as gossamer wings.

Happy Birthday, Suzi! This one’s for you!!!

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balanced on a twig—
two blue dragonflies and
all that space between them

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the story, calloused
and gnarled, inside it
red leaping blood

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picking up the moon
like a telephone to dial
your number, of course

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contemplating
dessert for
the Armageddon

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opening a can
of worms to find
rose petals

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