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Original poem reprinted online here: "Metamorphosis" by James Richardson Originally read: May 28, 2013 More information about the Poet: James Richardson There's a little blurb on the poets.org site where Richardson explains, "'In Ovid, desire can change anyone into...anything. In the supermarket, it happened just the way the poem says: I’m afraid I met her eyes an instant too long. (When I glimpsed the same woman a few weeks later she didn’t look like my mother at all.)'" And I'm glad I read this, and in some ways I'm not so glad.  I want to refer to this article here, "Based on a True Story. Or Not" by Kathleen Rooney where I found this quote relevant to this poem in particular, "In short, if we are angered, confused, or disappointed upon discovering that a poem we took as autobiographical is not, then whose liability is that? If we feel as though we’ve somehow been cheated, is that on us? I’d argue that it probably is" S...