Some of the best poems you'll read - Perigee
Some of the best poems you'll read - Perigee
Some of the best poems you'll read - Perigee
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"Totem"<br />
by Jeff M Phelps<br />
There are dragonflies about me,<br />
Snatching insects in swirling dust.<br />
I'm grateful; <strong>the</strong> flies are bad out here.<br />
One swoops a bug <strong>of</strong>f my arm<br />
But I flail at him—<br />
I didn't expect him so close,<br />
And he is strange.<br />
He and his wingman flit in a hot breeze, hunting.<br />
Fearless he lands for a moment on my pack;<br />
Who considers whom?<br />
I slide into my armor and check my weapon.<br />
The wind is picking up.<br />
The dragonflies disappear.<br />
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