Cocoon

Become My Flame

Rhiannon Carswell
Loose Words
Feb 9, 2021

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Photo by Matteo Kutufa on Unsplash

wrap me in your arms
become my chrysalis
give me a place to dissolve
a space to reconfigure my DNA
rearrange my pieces
to reassemble myself into something
that hungers for flames
then become my flame
consume me until nothing remains
but your arms and flecks of ash

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Rhiannon Carswell
Loose Words

Rhiannon Carswell is a writer based in Salt Lake City, UT. She holds a BA in English and MA in English from Indiana University-South Bend.