Love Medicine

Love Medicine
Detail of beadwork from an Ojibwe medicine pouch

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Metapmorphosis Haikus

From Gregor's POV
How nice of Grete
to leave me this milk and bread,
but i prefer dung.

I like to crawl, slow
across the cieling and walls.
What's this sticky stuff?

From Gregor's Mother's POV
Where has my son gone?
I should tend to my sewing
Did that bug eat him?

I feel faint, Grete.
I can not love this beetle;
He is not my son.

From Gregor's Father's POV
Grab the newspaper,
or a cane, or the fruit bowl.
I must beat him down.

He can not escape.
Gregor is now a danger
To our family.

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