Jane L. Carman - Cocoon

Despite transparent walls
the caterpillar
chews asclepsia
a regimen
worthy of the most
refined matriarch,
a homemade
comforter hides
metamorphosis,
plastic surgeons
will never
achieve
the mastery
of a butterfly
whose indifference
to waist size or
antenna length
allows confidence
with or without
an audience

Jane L. Carman

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