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# Medusa
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/medusa/
- Published: 2023-06-09T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-06-09T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: her kisses are hisses, she's speaking in tongues our marital bliss is a scream of my lungs her scales on my skin, tattooed by her squeeze her irises tinted with scandalous ease
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Sonnet, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

her kisses are hisses, she's speaking in tongues  
our marital bliss is a scream of my lungs  
her scales on my skin, tattooed by her squeeze  
her irises tinted with scandalous ease

seduced and enslaved, lacking reason or will  
I cannot be saved, filled with terror and zeal  
and know of no other, no break or escape  
no thing I would rather, I worship her shape

forbidden desires mix pleasure with pain  
the ritual fires can't make me abstain  
each sinuous curve demands my attention  
I live but to serve -- serve what? I can't mention

she draws out her hooks I am chilled to the bone  
and yet, as she looks I'm, as always, to stone