Wish:Metamorphosis to Heraldic Emblem by Margaret Atwood
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Wish: Metamorphosis to
Heraldic Emblem

I balance myself carefully
Inside my shrinking body
Which is nevertheless
Deceptive as a cat's fur:
When I am dipped in the earth
I will be much smaller.

On my skin the wrinkles branch out
Overlapping like hair, or feathers.

In this parlour, my grandchildren
Uneasy on sunday chairs
With my deafness, my cameo brooch
My puckered mind
Scurrying in its old burrows,

Little guess,
how maybe...

I will prowl and slink
In crystal darkness 
Among the stalactite roots
With new formed plumage  

uncorroded

gold and fiery green
My fingers curving and scaled
My opal
                   no eyes
Glowing

(c) Margaret Atwood

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