Metamorphosing Kafka
Young Gregorina wakes
transformed
four wings, thin limbs,
antennal head
yet nothing's
strange:
relatives accept
the change
and none suggest she
rearrange.
She simply
lives.
Metamorphosing Kafka © Copyright 2021, Robert J. Tiess.
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25 words (prompt limit). Image (girl with butterflies on her face) brevity challenge prompt - link:
https://allpoetry.com/contest/2787717-Brevity...-25-words-or-less
Poem inspired by Kafka's classic tale "The Metamorphosis,"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Metamorphosis
which develops and ends quite differently for its character, Gregor Samsa, who transforms into a repugnant bug, unlike Gregorina here, who appears to have become a butterfly.
Submitted: September 8, 2021