Beltane Metamorphoses - Catherine Brooks
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Beltane Metamorphoses

 

On Beltane I turned into a bumblebee

And burrowed into the bosom of an apple tree in bloom.

Her golden milk colostrum nourished me and stained my skin yellow.

 

On Beltane I went to the waters,

Rushing from snowmelt upstream.

The sun cast a net of light on the silt floor.

Shimmering skin of a river serpent.

 

I lifted up a skeleton leaf from last season’s debris.

Eclosion of an intricate lace butterfly wing.

This piece of cottonwood spent winter in the frozen cocoon of the creek

And woke up as an insect in spring.

 

Beltane trans-species metamorphoses.

 

Catherine Brooks, 2022
Photo: Catherine Brooks