Medusa’s #Metoo by Luanne Castle

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North of Oxford – The Pandemic Issue #1

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Medusa’s #Metoo by Luanne Castle

https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2020/04/15/medusas-metoo-by-luanne-castle/

Medusa’s #Metoo

Blackness shellacs my cave

but for the locked foyer with its glass

a moth born in the time

of dinosaurs and grown over-large

stopped spread-winged

on the pane, still and completed.

What is there about my walls

that stop life? The finch

that saw its soulmate

in a reflection, lying broken-necked

on my porch, the man whose eyes

caught mine, my own

famished for his form that perfected

itself in Brazilian granite

by sight of my teeming serpents

my out of control weeping

from this solitude I keep

My revenge from Athena this curse

a coverup through tweet and text

a smear campaign of slut and sext

Poseidon in Athena’s studio apt

My pterodactyl wings catch

on the limestone, grow runners,

they call me floozy, stink, death.

Luanne Castle’s Kin Types (Finishing Line), a chapbook of poetry and flash nonfiction, was a fi-nalist for the 2018 Eric Hoffer Award. Her first poetry collection, Doll God (Aldrich), was win-ner of the 2015 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award. A Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee, she studied at University of California, Riverside (PhD); Western Michigan University (MFA); and Stanford University. Her writing has appeared in Copper Nickel, TAB, Glass, Verse Daily, and other journals.