Dragonfly's Poetry & Prolixity


Dragonfly: Any of various large insects of the order Odonata or suborder Anisoptera, having a long slender body and two pairs of narrow, net-veined wings that are usually held outstretched while the insect is at rest. Also called regionally darner, darning needle, mosquito fly, mosquito hawk, needle, skeeter hawk.

Poetry: The art or work of a poet.

Prolixity: Excessive wordiness in speech or writing; longwindedness

Sunday, November 27, 2011

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Mugged By Poetry By Dorianne Laux —for Tony Hoagland who sent me a handmade chapbook made from old postcards called OMIGOD POETRY with a wh...
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Time by Louise Erdrich

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Time By Louise Erdrich My breasts are soft. My hair is dull. I am growing into the body of the old woman who will bear me toward my death, m...
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Saturday, November 26, 2011

Words by Anne Sexton

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 Annie, thank you for the words, the scroll of amazing words and YOUR caring, beautiful heart...       Words By Anne Sexton   Be care...
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Friday, November 25, 2011

The Moon on Friday Night by Susan Goyette

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The Moon on Friday Night                                         erased all paths to Saturday and swept up footsteps from the day before. It...
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A sad, drooping December Rose. In the Art Gallery By Susan Browne The painting of flowers next to the painting of flames, and I remember tha...
Thursday, November 24, 2011

Monet Refuses the Operation by Lisel Mueller

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My Garfield Kitty & Dragonfly Lamp ------------   Monet Refuses the Operation   Doctor, you say that there are no haloes around the stre...
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Sunday, November 20, 2011

The Scaffolding Inside You by Olena Kalytiak Davis

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The Scaffolding Inside You By Olena Kalytiak Davis Your thoughts have hung themselves from nails like workshirts. The sky has stopped offeri...
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Saturday, September 3, 2011

Japan by Billy Collins

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A Tobacco Moth, having supper at my Moonflower last summer. Japan by Billy Collins Today I pass the time reading a favorite haik...
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Thursday, September 1, 2011

The Moment by Margaret Atwood

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Edited and with an introduction by Sina Queyras - Foreword by Molly Peacock The Moment By Margaret Atwood The moment when, after m...
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Tuesday, August 30, 2011

The Moon by Robert Bly

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Hazy moon, tangled in trees by Marion. The Moon Robert Bly After writing poems all day, I go off to see the moon in the pines. Far in...
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