Medusa’s Medicine


     Laid out for surgery, a patient prude
     Swaps self guided for guile - Medusa’s will
     Noisy neurons mute, poor Nerida nude
     Serpent puncture spreads in her, poison pill
   
     
     Twirls twilight silent, sticky dark danger
     Cotton candy cloud, clement synapses 
     Petrifying practitioner changed her
     Nerida’s urge for control collapses

 
     Fang flung,  spiralled far from mediocre
     Transfixed in toxin, menacing method
     Venom swoll jugular veins squeeze choke her
     Doctor’s dose meticulously measured


     Tangled snake strands, table statue taboos
     Dagger dipped in blood leaves only a bruise 
     
     


         Numbing Needle 
         Ninth of January
Copyright © | Year Posted 2025

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Carmack Avatar
April 14, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Love how you started and ended this. Brilliant write.
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