Caterpillar

Free Verse Poem by Adam Crawford

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Orangish-yellow thing
with one big green eye
in the middle of your
packing-peanut head
and squishy, segmented
body like a diced carrot,
I'm sorry I moved you
from where you lay on
the lawn, for I thought
you were dying of thirst,
but you were only waiting to
become a cocoon; when
I moved you, I interrupted
the process and you never
got to become a butterfly.
I didn't mean to stop you.
I just didn't know what you
we're doing -- honestly . . .
You just died there and I
found you, all black and dry.

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Adam Crawford is a writer of poems and short stories. His work has been published by Ink Babies Lit Mag, Poetic Anarchy Press and The Pomegranate London. He lives in Simi Valley, California.