Poetica Magazine
Poetica Magazine
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Susan Sklan is a social worker and poet. Her poems have appeared in Kalliope, Folio, Lilith, Pleiades, Slipstream, other journals and anthologies. “On passing an old lover’s address” was chosen by the Cambridge MA, Sidewalk Poetry Program, 2018, and installed on a city sidewalk.
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“A change is gonna come”
Sam Cooke, 1964
Talking about the strength of moths,
how they undergo a metamorphosis
from the staying power
of a plodding caterpillar
into the grace of dustlike scales
on the beauty of open wings.
They fade into their surroundings,
hide in the silence of wool and cotton wads.
Yet when a light beams,
they fly to their fate,
their luminous feathery antennae
sensing their only direction.