{"id":1116,"date":"2021-01-29T00:45:14","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T06:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stmcollege.ca\/imr\/?p=1116"},"modified":"2021-03-19T04:50:43","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T10:50:43","slug":"metamorphosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stmcollege.ca\/imr\/?p=1116","title":{"rendered":"“Metamorphosis” by Delane Just"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Delane Just is a current graduate student in the MFA in Writing program at USask. She has been awarded an SSHRC grant for her thesis project, a collection of short stories relating to the Canadian women and LGBTQ+ millennial experience. Delane currently serves as a coordinator for the River Volta Reading Series. She also works as the Graduate Editor-in-Chief of the University of Saskatchewan Undergraduate Research Journal in which her own article \u201cThe Wombe\u2019s Burden\u2019\u2019 has recently been published. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Metamorphosis<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

if we die,
could we become trees like them?
Oak and Linden
sprouting leaves that dance and chatter?
crinkle, float, fall, and frost \u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n

if we die,
could we become birds like them?
will I wait at the shore for you,
Kingfisher?
drown in the sea with you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

would you sing for me,
My Orpheus,
search the depths for me?
look back for me?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

or would I become your muse,
your block of clay,
shape me into being.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

if we die,
would I see you again?
when the seasons change,
would I descend again,
God of Wealth
God of the Deep<\/p>\n\n\n\n

would they write of us,
my love?
keeper of secrets \u2014
would we remember?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You can follow Delane<\/strong> on Instagram @justdelane<\/a>. <\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This piece is part of the <\/em>in medias res Jan. 2021 \u201cReflection\u201d Issue. You can read the full issue under the tag \u201cJan. 2021<\/a>.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Image: <\/em>Pandora<\/span> (1914) by Odilon Redon<\/span> (Public Do<\/span><\/em>main)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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