Ask Meno Questions • Chrysalis

| Chrysalis
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| Memories of being held
|    In closely knit spheres
| And guided beyond the orbits
|    Of childhood fears
| Entrusted with a word
|    That rustles in a breath
| And warrants respect for
|    The not yet beautiful
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| In Honor of My Parents’ Golden Wedding Anniversary
| Jon Awbrey, Amherst, Massachusetts, March 21, 1996

“That is a chrysalis”, she said, when I showed her that funny-looking thing on the leaf.  In that 
moment I, the thing, and the word were one.  I learned a word, I wrapped it around a new-found 
thing, and I listened in wonder to my mother’s story of what it was and what it would be.

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