MEDUSA

MEDUSA

Medusa, she of the serpent tresses,
unjustly transformed because
women cannot be innocent

knows they are coming
the reporters, the cameras,
the cliche
hunting commentators,
the writers and poets
with all
  their reflective surfaces

knowing
    she can never
forgive or be forgiven

and this her logic
is that
   until she is killed
(sure she
is to be killed)
she must
    strive to turn
each of these
paladins of brutality
contempt, injustice

to mute outcrops
of fabulous stone.