04-23-2013, 07:07 PM
Monarch
First the worm and then the wormy chrysalis
I inch the pistils; silky, larval mass. I envy this:
the speed of the black cobra's missile-kiss,
the fissile-tongued poison thistle hiss. But no,
it is the ten day waiting as a bean green fava bean
until I break the seam,
stretch my newfound wings in newborn light
then burst to flight
a queen.
First the worm and then the wormy chrysalis
I inch the pistils; silky, larval mass. I envy this:
the speed of the black cobra's missile-kiss,
the fissile-tongued poison thistle hiss. But no,
it is the ten day waiting as a bean green fava bean
until I break the seam,
stretch my newfound wings in newborn light
then burst to flight
a queen.