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

Saturday, February 18, 2017

More 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 ...
Sunday, February 12, 2017

Doors of My Heart by Deborah Digges

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My heart on a vine... xo Doors of My Heart by Deborah Digges  The wind blows through the doors of my heart. It scatters my sheet mus...
Wednesday, February 8, 2017

Farfallettina by Rilke

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Farfallettina Shaking all over, she arrives near the lamp, and her dizziness grants her one last vague reprieve before she goes...
Wednesday, January 18, 2017

Tear It Down by Jack Gilbert

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Tear It Down By Jack Gilbert We find out the heart only by dismantling what the heart knows. By redefining the morning, we find a morning th...
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Thursday, January 12, 2017

Inessential Things by Brian Patten

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My silky kitty, Garfield, in one of his favorite spots. Inessential Things What do cats remember of days? They remember the ways i...
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Friday, January 6, 2017

Complaint by James Wright

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Moonlady tangled in trees. Getting over the flu.  It's an icy day in Swamplandia...rare & beautiful & magical here in...
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Monday, December 19, 2016

A Poem from the Experimental Novel, "House of Leaves"...

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(Untitled Fragment) By Mark Z. Danielewski, from "House of Leaves", page 563 Little solace comes to those who grieve when...
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Friday, December 16, 2016

Questions of Travel by Elizabeth Bishop

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There are too many waterfalls here; the crowded streams hurry too rapidly down to the sea, and the pressure of so many clouds on the mounta...
Saturday, December 3, 2016

In The Bleak Midwinter by Christina Rossetti

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It's been crazy here at Chez Dragonfly since I got my greenhouse. Did I mention I have a new little greenhouse/potting shed?  I do! I c...
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Friday, November 11, 2016

RIP Leonard Cohen

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RIP, great Poet!! Hallelujah" by Leonard Cohen ("Various Positions" Version) Now I've heard there was a secret ch...
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