So one more for today. Another Medusa piece and probably one of my personal favorites. I don’t know if any of this is publishable, but I have had one piece published in The Beltaine Papers (well, one of my own and one that was co-written with wendytorrence). So that was a personal high for me. I love seeing my work in print and I love hearing what others think of it. Even the bad comments help because I can try to see what they are not seeing or are seeing in the piece that makes them uncomfortable.
If Medusa Were A Mermaid
If Medusa were a mermaid
She would have fat sausage curls of moray eels
Dangling at her cheeks, powerful jaws waiting.
Sleek slim strands of sea snakes would drape from brow to nape
Deadly cover for her weapon.
A jellyfish for a bun with stinging tentacles adding that
Softening feminine touch to a severe line.
If Medusa were a mermaid
She would shun the sunlight;like her curls crave the dark recesses
Of watery caves lined with soft algae
Slipping inside touching the walls feeling the depths
She would brush away the wiry sea grass
That guarded the entrance and just slide in.
If Medusa were a mermaid
Her sleep would be guarded by the octopus
And the scorpionfish–a hug and a poisonus kiss
For any perseus who dared force entry
For such an affront she would let
Her curls caress his face, her strands wrap around his throat
And surely he would die happy.
Arwen Nightstar ,July 11, 1993 all rights reserved.
October 22, 2002