something big and black flew overhead

something big and black flew overhead
we both looked up, the dog and I
wings unlike a butterfly
it flew back up into the sky

a wasp? a wisp? a tiny bat?
I’ll never know, but it was thin
a black dragon fly, a dragon cat?
something with a touch of red.
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