Ten Gnats and the Golden Dragonfly

Sunset under the bridge:
golden dragonfly lights on a rock, and
ponders.

Ten gnats circle up, up, up a sunbeam, and
drift.
Then drop, like a waterfall,
stop,
and form into a ball.
Updraft.
Ten gnats circle up a sunbeam.

Flit!
One gnat leaves the column for a surrounding ring:
one thousand gnats.
Scythe!
One pointy-winged little bird
bullet-trains through the
now-wider gap.

Golden dragonfly
disappears in a curve of shadows,
perfectly mimicking a leaf's edge.

Sunset under the bridge:
Golden shadows are in motion.