I dreamed I saw Medusa ringleted
And supplied with useless vestigial wings
Her tongue aloll like that of Kali homicide
Her stature gigantic
Great Pegasus tucked under an arm
Like a schoolgirl’s satchel
And though she lacked her emblem serpents
And an eye was obscured by a cast
The other eye bloomed sickly with petrific power
To replace the gelatinous flesh
With mineral composite
She the living anomaly
More statue than organism
More fossil than statue
Vengeful for the slight of oblivion
Compelled to repeat upon all
The agony of her own fate

I awoke to leave behind
The part of me that had turned to stone