[Issue #4, Winter 1999-2000]
Glass Cocoon
Christopher J. Jarmick
Words flowing from somewhere
Sparked by a muse
Of the Spirit
Turning from text here
Into feelings there
From black and white
Into rich color.
The mind's eye?
No, the Spiritual eye.
Transforming a word
By itself so cold
Into something
Real
Warm
Bold
Meaningful.
The words
On the page
Soon to be more
Like a caterpillar...
In a
Glass Cocoon.
So close to becoming
A splash of vividly bright
Color
To be more for a moment
Than just black and white.
To defy simple description
As the colors
Take flight.
Ah... if only it was true.
If the ego balloon
Was really not just hot air
Or platitudes
But... a
Living creature in
A Glass Cocoon.
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Christopher J. Jarmick is a Seattle writer, marketing consultant, poet and
former TV producer/director. The poem "Glass Cocoon" is excerpted
from a novel he is co-writing with Serena Holder to be published in 2000.
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