Desi Di Nardo's work has been published in Canadian and international journals and anthologies, performed at the National Arts Centre, featured on Toronto's transit system, and displayed in the Official Residences of Canada. She has worked as a writer-in-residence, literacy facilitator, and English professor. Desi is the author of The Plural of Some Things, (Guernica Editions, 2008).
For more information, visit Desi at: http://www.desidinardo.com/
Mayflies
The soft-spoken take nectar with their tongues
We spread out idly in swards of wild grass
Confide secrets without moving our lips
The silence carries
jauntily over waves
Surges on morning
light and laughter
Our eyes wetted and
bleary still
Sway from sunbirds to
seabirds
A pale thistledown of
plumes
Cascades as astral
mayflies
We glance up with
wonder
Lock our hands and
capture
Their steady drift
and cling
Lambent over mere
water
Here only for an
afternoon
*Note - Photo of Desi Di Nardo taken by Rick O'Brien.
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Beautiful
A pale thistledown of plumes Cascades as astral mayflies We glance up with wonder Lock our hands and capture Their steady drift and cling Lambent over mere water Here only for an afternoon
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