1331 - Metamorphosis

 

The Sunday Whirl presents twelve words for us to use in a creative writing piece.  

This weeks words are: 

witchcraft, metamorphosis, garden, whirl, woods, fly, siren, sign, breath, stone, circle, why

Metamorphosis

Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns.

-- The Odyssey

Why? is the wrong question.

How? Is more to the point.

There is magic afoot in my garden.

How a pudgy, multi-legged sausage,

Full of the half-digested greenery

Of my well-loved garden,

Encases itself in a circle, a case, of gossamer

A change booth, a most private retreat 

Only to re-emerge as a butterfly?

What witchcraft is this?

I hold my breath as it takes its first,

Before launching off, flying off,

More a wobble than a whirl 

Twisting and turning

Moving from plants to flowers to woods.

How can this melting and remaking happen?

A clear sign of my ignorance.

What else is changing without witness?

Were the tangle of wire coat-hangers

Once my strangely missing ball-points?

What am I to believe?

Is there anything set in stone?

And if they are, can I trust the stones?  

The siren’s say ‘come Ulysses, come closer’.

Are they really stones?  

My toe says yes.

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