I struggled with this week’s prompt-picture…then struggled with keeping it to 100 words…then changed my form altogether
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Zygoptera
(zygo= joined or pairing; ptera= wings)
.
I have read of the damselfly
they of paired or joined wings
that lie paralleled and close
in their similarities
unlike others
of a horizontal differencing
.
it seems we each begin
as only one
lop-sided and clumsy
but eager to fly
flapping, leaping
slipping, falling,
we collide
.
finding another
and learning to lean
an economy of movement
security
so we huddle
and shelter
surrounded in pair
.
we of the joining wings
merging and taking to flight
.
if only for moments
N Filbert 2012