Shedding Her Skin

Brake out
From your cocoon
The moon
Must shed 
Her skin
From this
Fat green caterpillar
To this smooth
Brown maple-leaf 
Butterfly
Copyright © | Year Posted 2009

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September 17, 2009 at 11:16 PM
This one is beautiful, nice work on the one...
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