Writer's Block: Poetry Break

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Reflected in the Eye of a Dragonfly

Reflected in the eye of a dragonfly in lunar pool

And we will sail away on oceans

And a haze of carillons and juniper spines and the great

     valley of humming gongs

On ships that sail away forever

Unexplained light reflected from the spine of a

     metallic viper

I’ll seal your radiant kiss my lover

Strange rooms engulfed by a halo of alien architecture

Like sun across my eyes forever

And a dark garden of dragonflies encased in sulfur

You’ll see me standing there my lover

A silent walk through flowered knife shadows

Like trees against the sky forever

Then an unexplained kiss from a lethal angel

Then we will sail away on oceans

Reflected in the eye of a dragonfly in a lunar pool

On ships that sail away forever

—Harold Budd, from the album Glyph, 1995 (Collected in the book Colorful Fortune)