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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