Tuesday, August 12, 2008

golden dragonfly

golden dragonfly--
what is it you know? I stop
to remember now

I saw a golden dragonfly this morning. It flew past my eyes and then paused for a full minute on a leaf in front of my face. Its wings were clear except for a pattern of purest gold. Its body shimmered against the green leaf and it had a jeweled head. Wow.

I've seen blue-green dragonflies before--many of them. But this golden one seemed to have flown straight from the realms of mythical alchemy into my yard.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

WOW! From your description it sounds absolutely beautiful.

One day I will write to you because I love all your books and would love to have an autograph but until then the fact that you have started a blog makes me happy!!

Olgy Gary said...

ooohhhh...write, write, write us a story about it! Your blog entry if full of magical possibilities.