Hard

Hire a beautifully-muscled
bare-chested man
to use his jack  hammer
to shatter dragonfly wings covering a floor.
See the luminescent fragments
fly up and flutter down and stick
to his sweaty arms,
his broad, tanned shoulders
shuddering above the jack hammer.
See his green eyes glimmering above
his handsome mouth, the tip of his tongue
damp and warm between white teeth.

And when he turns off the jack hammer,
there is only the sound
of broken dragonfly wings
settling to the floor.

John Starnes  7-26-1988