There are also extensive studies of human saccadic

behaviors during different real-world tasks, such as making

a sandwich, fixing a cup of tea, or learning and

matching a shape; most studies indicate that eye movements

are probably made to collect task-relevant

information.  Each pair of needle-linked dragonfly

lovers is shaped like a blue goalpost, broken, slightly

tilted, or a country mailbox filled with outgoing

messages, its flag-arm raised, quivering in every breeze.

Eyes pulling spine, which draws torso, head, up through

electric night, until, come level with a mirror, eyes

stare into eyes bright with burning, set in a face distorted

by its scream, that red hole.  A hill still rises

out there; a river must still wind around

pastures; all of it untouched, just the way.


Joel Chace