The narrator is the first symbolism because it is the point of view of a woman on a one-night stand that began with lust and ended with love. She's young and in love with a random man she barely knows much about. The dragon flies at the beginning of the poem symbolizes what she and the man have sex. They're stuck together and sweating like it's "100 degrees at noon" in the sun. (3) Use dragonflies because they are beautiful creatures who are not sure which other dragonfly they are making a baby with. Later, she explains herself as a drunk who "refuses to remember, the way a drunk forgets." (19, 20) The next morning she doesn't want to remember what she did and feels strange for having done what she did with the