DRAGONFLY FUGUE

This flight hunts

the five-line staff

in homophonic fugue,

a fifth higher, a fourth lower,

each melody rising, falling

in parallel, tactful counterpoint

rounding out a loop

Theme and thread

                   a dialogue:

dominant, subdominant

     passing in and out

stretti overlapping

The world shrinks and grows,

tensed and released,

revealed, restated,

perched on light and shadow

A thousand waterbeads,

a thousand worlds,

scattered mosaic

we cannot name