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Mary Logue is a award-winning Minnesota writer of adult novels, children's novels, and poetry. She taught the very first class I took at the Loft Literary Center. Now she and her partner, National Book Award-winning Pete Hautman (how's that for a powerhouse writing couple...geez!) live and sometimes write together (see their Bloodwater mystery middle grade series).
Anyway, I love Mary's poetry. Her first collection that I was aware of, was Discriminating Evidence. Recently, I came across a new collection called Meticulous Attachment.
This book had lots of wonderful poems in it. Here's one of my very favorites.
Chrysalis
The end result is
a jewel of a house,
lime-green capsule
dotted with gold leaf,
but the resignation
with which it's done
makes me think there's pain
involved: the last desperate
munching of milkweed leaves,
the search for the solid branch,
the meticulous attachment.
The caterpillar swings free
and hangs upside down
in a question mark.
I can almost hear it wonder--
why am I doing this?
As the body splits,
it shrugs out of its skin
to hang--green teardrop--
in wide open space,
waiting for wings.
---Mary Logue
Great metaphor for writing, too, was my first thought. I love the jewel of a house, the desperate munching, and that gorgeous final line.
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