Caterpillar

by Susan Francino

I didn’t ask the caterpillar with its antennae tangled criss-cross in a cobweb if it wanted to be healed, but when I lifted the little curse, the joy then was so sudden that I hope to learn to live always as pleading, being bound, but also just as close to being free from all entanglements, and waiting, whole-being-waiting, praying for them to break.

Susan Francino holds a BA in Latin from Hillsdale College and an MFA in Poetry from Seattle Pacific University. Her work has also appeared in The American Journal of Poetry. 

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