DRAGONFLY DAYS

Photo by S. Auberle

DRAGONFLY DAYS

I love these glittery-winged days

of early autumn,

the bejeweled dragonflies

that sometimes grace my hand.

I love the lake's ripening scent

of marsh reeds and mud

the egrets--and the kingfisher

twirling over the lake.

I could worship, I think,

this stern god carved long ago

in the dead tree snag

and if he might speak

I would wish him to say:

do not come to this place

unless

you are prepared

to do nothing

but breathe...

- mimi