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!
Copyright Credit: 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)