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The given paper is devoted to the analysis of creolized texts in the collection “Milk and Honey” by Rupi Kaur, a Canadian poet and illustrator of Indian origin. In her poetry, linguistic metaphors are often accompanied by drawings forming multimodal metaphors, in which target, source, and mappable features are represented by two different sign systems. The paper identifies several ways in which visual metaphors can be coupled with verbal metaphors to form multimodal metaphors: a visual metaphor can be an illustration of a verbal metaphor, conveying the same conceptual mapping; a metaphor may be made manifest in the illustration, but not in the text; or it can make a verbal metaphor more specific, narrowing it down. The research demonstrates how the interplay of visual and verbal elements exemplifies the dynamic nature of contemporary mass poetry, where multimodality contributes to a richer, more immersive reading experience.