The Dragonfly

Four wings, two to a page, and the book has to lie open flat for all four to show. The back pair is the broader. Each wing has a dark mark near its tip.

You close the book partway. The wings fold with a soft paper sound, the back pair under the front. You hold the page to the window, and the bend shows through as a faint line. You open it flat and close it again, for the sound.

The card reads: A dragonfly cannot fold its wings back over its body. Its relatives flew three hundred million years ago, and they could not either.

Go back to the man with the brush.
Turn to the mantis and meet its eye. Found in the chute “A bus shelter with nobody in it, lit like an aquarium.” this page is not cut yet; the path bends to The Naturalist
Fold the whole page along the gutter, with the window behind it.

The book · Colophon and credits

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