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INDIVIDUATION

The in-between heat of August is there
And here
For those of you who dare
To embrace the early signs of magic

Katydids clacking at dusk
To the moon’s silver fingers
Parting the leaves

Cicadas rattling like tambourines

I come across an eagle feather
Long black and brown
Wonder if it actually fell from a vulture
Either way I am protected

From what?
Yesterday and tomorrow

In the morning
A Luna Moth did not time the sunrise
Correctly
Hides herself out in the open as an Oak leaf
Stuck to the sunlit bark

Eyes from her lime wings
Stare out

No mouth to shout

And with no stomach
She cannot conceive of hunger or thirst
It is love that sustains
Her

Needs

Love love love
Cinderella with her slipper left for the Prince
Of darkness
To leave three hundred eggs wrapped in a leaf
For the cocoon of moon in the following spring

Love

Her wand of a tail
Tattered
By a night-before battle with a bat

What is left to do when all is accomplished?
But to rest

To translate biology to poetry
To remain solitary

To realize the world cannot understand
If not
Outright resists
This
Transformation

From living being to unseen spirit

She makes it through the day
Then lifts her wings
Into a purple legion of darkness

Disappears.

Copyright © Robert Trezise Jr. | Year Posted 2025

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Date: 9/7/2025 7:59:00 AM

WoW ! The best individuation poem I’ve read in a long time ...beautiful how you’ve woven colour in, Robert. Best line : to translate biology to poetry ..to remain solitary - is explicit, yet delicate - the ending of disappearing into a purple legion of darkness is superbly powerful. Light your way.

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