Nose-ringed
neo-Medusa
reclines on a
cloud of cord-corpses.
The hairy wires and wiry hairs are
disconnected from the sockets
that she gathers under soft eyelids.
Her fringe repels their magnetic pull,
and she is waiting for more wires,
more and more wires,
to come and be petrified.
Sam Waldron is a writer and teacher in Melbourne, Australia. His poetry has been published locally and abroad, and his debut collection ‘The Book of Ours’ will be released in December.
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