Moments of Metamorphosis

By Cassandra Victoria Cornacchia

Moments of Metamorphosis is a poetic memoir that brings voice to the alchemical process of moving through terrains of grief and fragmentation into landscapes of love and connection. Reflections on the preciousness of life’s tragedies, miracles and the intrinsic momentum towards wholeness that is alive within the human heart. Authentic expressions on the experience of being motherless from a young age, alongside the remembrance of ever-present love, belonging and coming home to oneself, the Earth and the Cosmos.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Archway Publishing
• Release date: Dec 20, 2022
• ISBN: 9781665729185

Cassandra Victoria Cornacchia

Cassandra Cornacchia is a second-generation European settler living amongst the sacred lands of Turtle Island. What she loves most is sunlight on her skin, blue waters near her eyes, flowers by her side, and trees above her mind. Cassandra believes that the cultivation of an inner compassionate presence is a precious key in the healing of trauma, grief, and pain. As well as sincere and intimate relationships to the natural world. She is a Registered Social Worker, Eco-Therapist and Trained Mindful Self-Compassion Teacher. Writing and poetry have always been a crucial pathway of expression and integration for Cassandra throughout her life. There is a spiritual and devotional quality to her work, as she courageously shares her heart and soul through this collection of poems.

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Cover Graphics/Art Credit:

Butterfly - Aarn Giri

Night Sky - Ivana Cajina

And to Carlos Jose Laya Perez for their

support with cover design.

ISBN: 978-1-6657-2903-1 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-6657-2918-5 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2022916043

Archway Publishing rev. date: 12/19/2022

Contents

Birth

Caterpillar

Chrysalis

Butterfly

Metamorphosis

This memoir is

dedicated to my Mom

Bianca Vivian Cornacchia

November 8, 1965 - November 9, 1996

At 31 years old she passed from

This life to her next

Mom,

Thank you for showing me

That loves exists

Beyond space and time

Beyond life and death

Infinite and Eternal

And to my grandparents

Carmelo Cornacchia & Incoronata

Angela Cornacchia

Thank you for raising me

Into the person I am today

From the young child I was that day

When you took me into your home

and treated me as your own

Thank you for showing me what it means

To be a family

Landing Here

I am a second-generation white settler, with European ancestry from Italy, Sweden, and France residing amongst Turtle Island, in Tkoronto, the traditional and enduring territories of many Indigenous Nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, the Huron-Wendat Nation, the Anishinabek Nation and the Haudenosaunee Confederacy.

This land is