Chrysalis

shrunken decayed
grey flecks to dust
at my breathing

I was too small for it
wiry skip of fair frecked skin
shadowed strands
longed for hiding
eyes and hollows swallow
fill the face the room the wind
encompassed ever rumbling

brittle marrow
dies a trace a time
since before concepted
this house
forgot the yolk
uncracked unmarred
inside I tumbled
cushion of amnion absent
secret
broken capillaries
under dime sale clothes

as I return my limbs catch
into walls and doorways
I duck to pass
stride once
over ten eched shuffling footsteps
in watching traces
she follows me

saturating those eyes
I let her drink
hungry thing
you may leave now
grow above the counters
corners closet floor
I wonder how you fit
where none could find me

let the dead things
the dry and bloodless crack
with the intake
I swallow her to my lungs
with the out
her egg skin
shatters