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Rye Poetry Path

  • Partners
  • Locations
    • Edith G. Read Wildlife Sanctuary
      • On a Different Day
      • Night Heron Maybe
      • Ex Libris
      • World
      • Darkening, Then Brightening
      • Wild Geese
      • Wild Duck
      • The Peace of Wild Things
      • Photo of a Man on Sunset Drive: 1914, 2008
      • Celebrating Childhood
      • Evening
      • An Aspect of Love, Alive in the Ice and Fire
      • Sounds of the Resurrected Dead Man’s Footsteps #17
      • From Blossoms
      • There is a bamboo grove around my house
    • Rye Town Park
      • If They Come for Us
      • On the Beach at Night Alone
      • Ocean Park Notebooks
      • Blessing the Boats
      • The Song of the Bee
      • atlantic is a Sea of bones
      • Danse Printemps et Quarantine
      • The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
      • Viento, agua, piedra
      • The Widow Plants Daffodils
      • Mud
      • Still I Rise
      • Dragonfly
      • Jogging on the Beach
      • Speaking Tree
      • Letter Written on a Ferry While Crossing Long Island Sound
      • Happiness
      • Twenty-Third
      • What It Must Have Felt Like
      • The Pond at Dusk
      • Let Me Begin Again
      • The Little Turtle
      • Psalm 150
      • The Duck
      • Sunset
      • Catalog of Unabased Gratitude
      • The New Dog
      • Long Island Sound
      • Sea Pebbles: An Elegy
      • Butterfly Cloth
      • The Wind
    • Rye Nature Center
      • Hurt no living thing
      • Characteristics of Life
      • In the Clearing
      • [i carry your heart with me(i carry it in]
      • The Noble Nature
      • Oak
      • There Will Come Soft Rains
      • On a Tree Fallen Across the Road
      • Man in Stream
      • Rock Pool
      • The old pond
      • Each and All
      • Remember
      • Like The Water
      • For Keeps
      • The Shapes of Leaves
    • Knapp House
      • Prints
  • Sponsors
  • Events
  • Resources

Dragonfly

Rebecca Kai Dotlich

This sky-ballerina,
this glimmering
jewel,
glides in gown
of lucid blue-
with wings that you
could whisper through.

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