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| A fucking big Dragonfly |
Giant insects ruled the great prehistoric skies during periods when small and ancient Earth's atmosphere was rich in oxygen. Then birds came on Earth. Then after the evolution of birds and humans... dragons ruled with dinosaurs. Insects reached their greatest sizes about 300 million years ago, during the late Carboniferous and early Permian periods. This was the reign of the predatory griffin-flies, giant dragonfly-like insects with wingspans of up to 28 inches (70 centimeters)... and the flying insects got bigger and bigger! They got so motherfuckin' big that the bloody insects took over my mind. I envied insects and wanted to be like one.
DRAGON FLY
At night, I'm a
dragon that breathes smoke,
At daybreak, I’ll
sleepwalk with human folk.
I saw Mr. Charles
Darwin at an orphanage,
Over institutions of
my fen-raged dreams,
Off coast-lands of
weedy-soaked serpents,
The sea flows from
sorrow of storage.
An attic within a
cave conceals me for a while.
Then I arise, alone
of scales, spikes of style,
I rage with madness
at my seventh horn.
As my three eyes
weep at unseeing dark,
Nightfall of
stone-blind infectious sharks,
Swimming with ailing
evil, I’m reborn.
I snarl and gnarl at
a trapdoor of rocky bars
As a fire-breathing
monster bleeding scars,
Craving for a sea
nymph to set me free;
Sharing darkness
with an immortal breeze
I breathe flames
with venomous steam,
I kill a Raven and
eat her in the sea.
These cages kill the
memory of a stranger,
Of sunshine and days
loving Amy Granger;
When daylight struck
my brow for sight,
Though here I dwell
as a disfigured reptile
Hurting with hunger
to walk as a human,
But I’m lizard-like,
slithering with fright.
There beaming in the
horizon gleams her,
Beckoning for me to
drown in slumber,
To nap with wet
dreams of a heavenly sky,
To forsake burning
desire of unholy fire
And to end nibbles
of dog-hearted fancy;
In place of
evolving, as a creature I’ll fly.
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| Photo courtesy of The Legendary Moonlight Sculptor |
