Excerpt from “The Gorgon Awaits Her Fate”

“For sixteen years, the blood sun neither set

nor rose upon the basalt shores of

Sarpedon, where the gorgon slithered on

like a snake, her limbs and tail like a

scorpion, among the tombs she created”

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