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Beware
Joan
McNerney
If
you touch Medusa
her
serpents will wrap
themselves
around you.
She
soars through water
with
giant wings gold fins.
Hundreds
of snakes
crawling
from her head.
Some
long to be near
Medusa
to hear her hissing
lisping
songs forgetful.
She
can suck blood from
throats
coiling minds
past
infinity before
they
breathe again.
Joan McNerney’s poetry is found in many literary magazines such as Seven
Circle Press, Dinner with the Muse, Poet Warriors, Blueline, and Halcyon Days.
Four Bright Hills Press Anthologies, several Poppy Road Review Journals, and
numerous Spectrum Publications have accepted her work. She has four Best of
the Net nominations.
