Fly, Dragonfly!
By Joyce Sidman
Water nymph, you have
climbed from the shallows to don
your dragon-colors.
Perched on a reed stem
all night, shedding your skin, you dry
your wings in moonlight.
Night melts into day.
Swift birds wait to snap you up.
Fly, dragonfly! Fly!
Joyce Sidman, "Fly, Dragonfly!" from Song of the Water Boatman & Other Pond Poems. Copyright © 2005 by Joyce Sidman. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Source:
Song of the Water Boatman & Other Pond Poems
(Houghton Mifflin, 2005)
