Becoming Beyond the Cocoon: A Reflection on Linette Rabsatt’s “I Am a Butterfly”

Nelly Vee reflects on Virgin Islands poet Linette Rabsatt’s “I Am a Butterfly,” exploring survival, the pupa stage, freedom, pollination, legacy and nVeeism.

Nelly Vee reflects on Virgin Islands poet Linette Rabsatt’s “I Am a Butterfly,” exploring survival, the pupa stage, freedom, pollination, legacy and nVeeism.

“This place—my beginning—is their stranger, a paradise written in their blood yet absent from their memory. The island waits like a patient elder, holding stories in its palms—stories my children have yet to hear with their own hearts.” © Nelly Vee