When life departs the heart of dragonfly,
Stilled form is frozen into time. When strife
Drowns a dragonfly in sticky webs, life
Unsurvives as dragonfly’s story dies.

I think the spider kept the dragonfly,
Dead, yet imprisoned in its web, to view
The beauty now inside the spider due
To need to feel the conquest new. When lies

Of waring wedded bliss beguiles a guise
Into the reality of life, death
Awaits with fated fangs of divineness.
When kiss rapports the heart of dragonfly,

A bug hurries flight to die. When spider
Snags a dragonfly, the world seems thinner.

Erin Elizabeth Kelly-Moen
Photo by Kayla Moen
© Copyright 10/5/07