Dragonflies Faster Than the Eye Can See
Haiku by Valorie Broadhurst Woerdehoff and Lara Payne
pond's edge
eye-to-eye
with a dragonfly
*
concert in the park
a dragonfly
keeps time
Valorie Broadhurst Woerdehoff
Dubuque, IA, USA
almost still
aloft, gradient
dragonfly time
Lara Payne
Brentwood, MD, USA
www.larapayne.com
Editor Bio: Nancy Brady is a pharmacist by vocation and a poet by avocation. Her main literary focus is Japanese short poetry forms with her haiku and senryu having been published in journals around the world. In 2023, she became an author of a children’s book The Adventures of Aloysius, which has subsequently been catalogued in the Library of Congress. She is interested in photography and has, for more than ten years, spent some of her free time as a volunteer at the Old Woman Creek National Estuarine Research Center.
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