Transformation

In the chrysalis

there’s nothing to talk about —

nothing of the former experience

with any relevance

to the transformation at hand

Unless, of course, there is —

unless the subtle flavors

of all those different leaves

you munched voraciously

with no articulation as to why —

Will now reveal themselves to be

precisely what you needed,

as their gifts are taken in and reconfigured

in the life for which the caterpillar had no words

but maybe somehow craved.

©Wendy Mulhern

August 21, 2013