Unpacking
It happens in the pupa: what before
was caterpillar, not yet chrysalis,
first must liquefy to the very core,
become a living soup that somehow knows
transfiguration’s immanence, restores
itself, unfurls to go where the wind goes.
I’m up to my elbows in boxes, dust,
development, with nothing more to lose
in this liquefied emulsion of us.
for Marti
© Michael Fleming
Brattleboro, Vermont
October 2016
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