Reweaving the Cocoon

David Wade Chambers
Poets Unlimited
Published in
1 min readFeb 17, 2019
John Southin (1938–2014) Photo by DWC.

From the cocoon
we all must come
full blown
without relief
without the possibility
of turning back.

We spend these short lives
reweaving the cocoon.

(in memory of John Southin and based on our last conversation)

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David Wade Chambers
Poets Unlimited

University Lecturer. (History of Science) Retired. Living in Anglesea, Australia.