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# About the Winged Ones | by Laura Nováková
- URL: https://www.medusarising.org/about-the-winged-ones-by-laura-novakova/
- Published: 2025-11-04T05:33:16.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-11T12:37:24.000Z
- Description: I take a breath and just see where it goes from there.
- Author: Medusa Rising
- Tags: Poetry, Womens Poetry

Something to think about ever since you’re born – would it kill you? 

A butterfly got caught on the windshield. Wings bent, over and over again, I want to help, no choice but to sit and stay, let it pass. Birds of a feather lose feathers but on that one walk, I found them ripped out with the skin. Flesh holding it together; on your path, calls of ravens shrieking of unbeaten hearts. I’m afraid to dream - I’ll end up hung. Daydreams, the ones in the night – *wildflowers, sit and stay, let life pass.* I take a breath and just see where it goes from there. I speak and get stuck in the atmosphere, arms and legs flailing between my words, descent without breaking. Effort can breed a catastrophe, too. 

The children pinch butterfly’s wings between their fingers - big bad world they spawned into. I took one home as a child, caged it for myself; I stared at a huge statue of an angel made out of metal wires. I was a chapel.

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**Laura Ruslana Nova** is a writer and a trained actress from Slovakia, who started writing as a child. She has a BA in Performing Arts, where she completed a creative writing module. That is where 'About The Winged Ones' was born. Her poem 'Instigator' was written when she was 16\. Together, they are her first publications. 

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