Jennifer Schomburg Kanke
POST-CHEMO BODY AS LONGWING BUTTERFLY
Everyone’s cocooning now
and the leaves of the passionvine
have all been eaten away,
stored in the bodies as fuel
for the change. We respect that rest
in the self-created shell
but expect you to fly far too soon.
You emerge with wet wings we forget
need just a moment to dry
and, once they are dry, to test
their own openings and closings before
they’re ready to take on the sky.
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