God's Justice

Anne Carson

In the beginning there were days set aside for various tasks. On the day He was to create justice God got involved in making a dragonfly
and lost track of time. It was about two inches long with turquoise dots all down its back like Lauren Bacall.
God watched it bend its tiny wire elbows as it set about cleaning the transparent case of its head. The eye globes mounted on the case
rotated this way and that as it polished every angle. Inside the case
which was glassy black like the windows of a downtown bank God could see the machinery humming and He watched the hum
travel all the way down turquoise dots to the end of the tail and breathe off as light. Its black wings vibrated in and out.