Anecdotal Evidence: `Pilots Who Are Their Own Craft'

Anecdotal Evidence: `Pilots Who Are Their Own Craft'
Excerpt:
Dozens of dragonflies are flitting about the engineering quadrangle when I arrive in the morning. The sun is still low but already blinding. Light glints off wings and abdomens, turning them into harmless (to humans) tracer bullets ricocheting over the grass...Pantala travels 11,000 miles across the Indian Ocean from India to South West Africa, twice a year.”...

Strength and beauty linked is always impressive, in insect or poem. Pantala is the Ur-dragonfly, a perfect killer, so well-adapted it has colonized the world...” I can’t imagine catching a dragonfly in flight with my hands, or grasping a good poem after the first read.