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| 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:
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| 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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