Dragonfly Dance

My eye was caught this morning by a huge dragonfly skimming over the top of the tallest tree in the neighborhood. He glowed in the backlight of the waking sun. A school of gnats shared the sky, dancing their gnat dance, enticing the dragonfly. The dragonfly dined then ducked behind the tree line; several other dragonflies replaced him as though they were playing musical chairs. They rose and fell until the morning sun moved high enough into the sky to blind me. The show was over for today; tomorrow if I am paying attention, Nature will bless me with another of her small, mighty plays.