Perseus and Medusa
What emotionless expression remains as a stain on the head
without a body, in the hands, of Perseus instead
At his feet, a corpse, of a monster once loved
or known for, love, or seduction, or lust
Medusa, the gorgon sister
Medusa, the entrapment of man
Medusa, the snakes in your hair
Medusa, with your head in his hand
Medusa
Hercules and the Centaur Nessus
Nessus, the centaur with infected blood,
Nessus, Whose blood stains Hercules’s hands
Hercules, such ferocity in your hands
Entangled within the hair of this beast
Hercules, Do you know this blood is poisoned?
The Rape of the Sabine
To the women of the Sabine tribe,
what can really be said,
Nothing would seem appropriate
Other than the adoration of the sculpture
a sculpture depicting an entire lesson withing its form
towering over the men
stealing the women
using “lawful wedlock” to justify the unjustified
You can never justify the unjustified
