This is my letter to the world

Saw one of these at work today:

Thank goodness THIS isn't a local delicacy!

A coworker found it crawling up the side of the back door. He brought it inside to show us. I wish I'd had my camera.

But I touched it.

And it was awesome.

It was about the size of a breakfast sausage & its skin was wrinkled & soft as an apricot.

Ah.

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What my silken friend will eventually become:

It rubs the lotion on its skin, or else it gets the hose again.

This website shows the transition of the Hyalophora cecropia silkmoth beautifully: http://www.wormspit.com/cecropia.htm

(I think the eggs look more like teeth.)

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from Nature in The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

VII

From cocoon forth a butterfly
As lady from her door
Emerged—a summer afternoon—
Repairing everywhere,

Without design, that I could trace, 
Except to stray abroad
On miscellaneous enterprise
The clovers understood.

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