Mechanical Dragonfly Imagined

This dragonfly runs on a battery
fed by sun,
a rotor at the end of its tail.

Silent it comes,
a camera on each side of its head.
It glints in sun.

You can't always hear it approaching,
up close a hum,
but by then it’s already exploding.

A multi-winged killing machine,
now here, then gone.
Self-sufficient, it hunts on its own.

Alone.  Alone.

 

NatureSuzi Peel