Kalamata

October is two things:

1. Awesome; and

2. A month of repeats :(

I'm in New Mexico working on a novel and cannot  write poems and novels at the same time. My brain just doesn't work that way. Sorry. So you get a repeat of last years Cryptozoological extravaganza!

Enjoy.

Kalamata (Scylla) 10/1

You are a beautiful woman

Tall with as many earthly talents as one may have

And you stand here

Your waist ringing with the heads of wild dogs

The tail of a vile sea creature

Flicks about your ankles and wraps around rocks

What have you done to deserve this

How did one so young and precious anger the gods

To become this hideous wraith

Reaching out to any sailor and breaking every ship

Was it the love of Glaucus

Whom you turned down whom you ran from

There is a dark tale hidden in your breast

One of women running from love they cannot bear