JoyAnne O'Donnell - Issue 35

JoyAnne O'Donnell is a poet currently writing from Maryland. JoyAnne O'Donnell is an authorette of five poetry books on Goodreads and Amazon. Three chapbooks of poetry published to, one in Scars Publications titled "Sun and Rain, two chapbooks of poetry from The Origami Poets.

JoyAnne's latest poems are in Pentacat Press and Ultramarine Review,The Galway Review. Twice Pushcart nominated poet.

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Dragonfly

I often wonder

And ponder,

Do dragonflies fly

From dragon blood,

They stitch blue light

Into the air,

Needles with wings,

Zizzing the afternoon closed,

They hover in my garden

Like unfinished dreams,

Glass bodies catching everything,

I don’t think they vanish

They fly blocks in the sky with a fast blink.

The Cobwebs Veil

Once when climbing to the attic

Morning enters on the sun’s

Borrowed light,

Dust always clinging to dance,

A cobweb lifts its lace

Between yesterday and the ancient door

I walk through the fuzzy web

A sticky time of many clings

To my face like static,

Old names stringing

In the wires of my year.

The room keeps its quiet secrets:

A chair remembering someone,

A window blinking awake,

The clock sees its own tick.

Nothing is broken

Just saved

Layered by a timepiece

Even the veil knows

How to let the light flow through.