MEDUSA

By Hannah Hogan

Turned

inside-out, fury catches in the chest

serpents twisting, pain

searing - sun, blistering

shadows, solid lines - eyes

wide in surprise, breathless

for life

a Gorgon’s lair

dark, and captivating

walls marked

a tally of fools

~ who dares

to look twice?

Sister, I see you

this shattered looking glass

once a beating heart

walls marked

a tally of monsters

fingernails, scraping

down thighs

Come back to the light

of history dying

a story begging

for retelling, voice reviving

Sister, I see you

walls marked

a tally of millennia, truth

silenced - no longer

set in stone

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