Monday, April 29, 2024

My Unravished Bride

 

Medusa’s head above the door

Has stoned the crows and salesmen, too;

But no one ever rocked me more

Than igneous, impassive you,



Though permanent now as headstones cut

With mottoes, there beside my walk,

So poets can imagine what

Art would sound like if it could talk.



Medusa once was fair herself

And drove the bright boys wild with lust.

Like you now, from her warden shelf

She flakes in petrifying dust.


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