Metamorphosis
Commenced
as a tiny
egg glued to foliage.
Maturing bondage in a shell
awaits
Larva
Eating, growing,
full size caterpillar
outgrows its present confines.
Splitting
Again
Reattaching
itself with liquid from
its spinneret. Creating a
button.
hanging
little pupa
dieting, motionless,
metamorphosing completely
anew
Cracking,
exposing head
and thorax first. Followed
by legs and golden wings of a
Monarch.
poem by Albert Ahearn
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