A Period of Waiting

Jun-long Lee

Woodcocooned, shaved of all images and emerged as imago; given to the continent by water, gift of moisture; an uncomfortably seated waiting for larvae to follow. A truce between tenses crawling in the tunnels of what remains—the woodcarrion. Pressed beneath bushes smoking with daylight till the stars have outdone the tenement shining, witness to the movement of recognition.