A knot in the gut
Tangled thread loosening
serpent brooding
in summer hibernation.
The solstice, the solstice!
and four hundred updates later,
the crouching dragons are slayed.
it is not a cycle
if the butterfly can’t become
a caterpillar.
a toad breeds venom
and yet the bard finds the stone
that adorns the crown.
what shall we find
beyond the wait…
a venomous spoil
or a twinkling star!
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Monami Mukherjee is an educator and lifelong student of English literature. She studied at Lady Brabourne College and the University of Calcutta, where she completed her MPhil, and has 21+ years of teaching experience. Her interests include Feminism, Post-colonialism and Modernism, and through NibblePop and its YouTube channel she breaks complex texts down into simple, relatable ideas. Read more
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