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Dragonflies

Andrew H. Oerke

So there still are dragons and I’m glad there’s an airforce chock-
full of them, zooming out of the twilight like a flock
of Zeros dogfighting the hummingbird fleet, or
mosquitoes, gnats, and flickering fireflies far
more clever than other wings in the dark since they flash
Morse Code signal flares when challenged. These slashing
dragonwings won’t surrender to vampires, bats, or to
the barn swallow ballerinas who exit the stage
when it’s too dim to show themselves off to advantage.

But back to my boyhood’s fishing pole line and a dragon-lace
neon-blue translucence I won’t disremember
though it’s written with lemon ink between the lines.
Nor do I forget the firefly I squished, whose
phosphorescence glued on thumb in thought like a guilt trip,
and still flares in memory like a match scratched in the dark
when the lights in the city are doused in houses & park,
nor do I want to rinse off that stigma stuck to my palms.
St Francis can judge me when we meet in the silent tombs.

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