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Chrysalis

JUNE 6, 2011

A year ago
tonight...

Milt came home from his Boston trip
and my world forever tilted
then not knowing
that he would not be here tonight...

and now... 
I find myself even deeper
within this chrysalis
and I know not myself...

a year later
with every window  
of my house encased
in plastic sheeting 
for the paint that will hopefully be applied
sans any February rain  
this seventh day of June...

  I am stripped,
turned inside out, 
held oh so tight...
I can not see in
and I can not see out...
the forty-eight days  
until I get my new pup
might as well be forty-eight years tonight...

  or forty-eight light years, 
past or present, 
I do not know
if I would even show up
in one of Milt's death candles...
I feel so transparent
breathing into right now... 
I can feel the tightness
of not knowing the boundaries of where my skin
ends and begins...

  I have this new  body 
free of the pain
these last few years bound me to... 
and I am caught between 
my love of changing
and the me that lived here with Milton... 
for all I know now
is the freedom of 
being
just me...

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