Small Things

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Revision 2:
Black shutter opens the scene:
a dragonfly's wings
buzzing like blurred fans,
an iridescent carapace purple-green
in the macro lens-reflected light.
Bristled with sparse whiskers
he penetrates the inferior
fly with his fangs.
Closer we are drawn,
inward to micro-organisms
colonizing his body like countless
lifeforms on a planet;
a chaos of larvae and their predators.
Fat white worms cannot escape
agile spiders moving
too fast for the eye.

Original:
Film frames rapidly
step us closer to the scene
of a dragonfly's wings
buzzing like static.
His iridescent carapace
is purple-green in the macro
lens light. Bristled
with sparse whiskers,
he penetrates a smaller
being with his fangs.
Closer still we are
shuttered inward to
micro-organisms colonizing
his body like a planet;
a place where there exists
a chaos of larvae and
their predators. Fat white
worms cannot escape agile
infectious spiders moving
too fast for the eye.