My host is on the deck above. It's just a dragonfly, she laughs.
But what I see, down here in the dusk, is barely darker than the air.
What I see is motion, like filings to a magnet, like new ripples on still water.
The shape (barely a shape) approaches, skimming past my ankle, then retreats along the path --
approaches, retreats, approaches, retreats,
and I would watch until the air is darker than the motion,
but I have to retreat along my own path.
About Me
Susan Forbes Hansen
I've hosted The Sunday Night Folk Festival on WHUS / Storrs since August 1979. Since then I've also hosted Valley Folk (WFCR / Amherst) from 1985 - 2007 and In Town (WNPR / Hartford) for two years in the late '80s. My photos have graced a few CD covers as well as a few exhibit-walls. I've had a lot of letters-to-the-editor published, as well as some articles about folk-performers (the most recent, about Eliza Gilkyson, appeared in the Winter '05 issue of Sing Out! magazine). I didn't teach anything having to do with folk-music, photography, or writing.
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