In her poem ""Shedding Skin,"" Harryette Mullen compares her own transformation to the action a snake periodically carries out to renew itself. Since you now have an excellent opportunity to undertake your own molting process, you may find her thoughts helpful. (I''ve rendered them in prose for easier reading.) ""Pulling out of the old scarred skin—old rough thing I don''t need now—I strip off, slip out of, leave behind. Shedding toughness, peeling layers down to vulnerable stuff. And I''m blinking off old eyelids for a new way of seeing. By the rock I rub against, I''m going to be tender again."" Halloween costume suggestion: snake sloughing its skin.

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