Our Lady Undoer of Knots – a poem by Grace C. Przywara

Our Lady Undoer of Knots


While reflecting on how
knots of ribbon or string
always seem to be so
convoluted, beyond
amend, I remember
one small tug can shift the
entire contortion now.
inch by inch, connections
reveal themselves: to pull
this pulls that then, gaps where
before threads strangled tight.
Serpentine blooms rosettes.
The knot unravelling
spills smoothly down her hand:
disjointed disarray
has always been one strand.

Grace C. Przywara received an English degree from the University of South Carolina. Her poetry has appeared in Ekstasis Magazine and is forthcoming in Rise Up Review, and has placed multiple years in contests hosted by human rights organization Rehumanize International. Grace currently lives in Aiken, South Carolina.

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