July 18, 2023
The dragonfly hitches up
mica wings, one
twitch, settles back to
watch and wait while
trout subtle as water
vanish in overhanging
branches to rise again
as vortex, silt-flick
surface rip, wavelets
rasping rocks,
replying as glass to glass
glass through glass,
bending light to make
a world of whispers
I hear as silence
counter to itself
in everything that
almost gets away.
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