Caterwalling caterpiller

Cartwheeling careened

Stem to branch to tree

Thump thump through veins heard

Crawling forth of fingered leaf

Some grasping bruising way

Some bridging giving play

Sometimes in sunlight

Munching leaves a song

Alive not lingered long

Bending waves of color

From flowered reaches flown

In motion

So wrapped in sleep and sown

As one near fully grown

Gnawing not on bone

With wings to greet the daylight

"Vita brevis, Ars in diuturna discendo." - anon.