The Dragonfly Reader by Gregg Norman

THE DRAGONFLY READER

It’s the same one, surely,

who has returned

these three days running

to land on the top left corner

of the left-hand page

of whatever poetry

I’m reading in the sun

on the cottage deck.

It keeps its long, banded,

blue-black body

and cross-hatched,

gossamer wings

well out of the way

of turning pages,

but leans in

for a closer reading.

Its tastes are

entirely catholic,

from Bukowski to Blake.

I’d give anything

to know its thoughts.

Gregg Norman is a Canadian poet living and writing in a lakeside cottage with his wife and a

small dog who runs the place. His work has been placed with many international poetry journals and literary magazines. He has been nominated for Best of the Net and The Pushcart Prize.