Imago: Portrait of a Young Poet

It’s not her elytra,

glittery and hard,

but the second, delicate pair

of wings they conceal,

folded along artful veins,

that when it’s time

will open and carry her.

Credit

Copyright © 2019 Lola Haskins. Used with permission of the author. This poem originally appeared in The Southern Review, Winter 2019.