Inescapable

Gina Wisker

Medusa would have
Nurtured snakes – my hair weaves
Instead
Catching me? Or you
Trapped and welded
Into a pattern
Caught, netted and
Mapped, tracked
Both sun and moon gaze on
Day into night
Through these skeletal
Muscular forms
Branches?
But see?
I see from this mask
These cavernous eyes
Seek you out
Where am I?
Behind the swirl of snaky hair
Pause
See now
How I have also caught your eye
Cavernous in mine
You too now
Woven in
Unable to escape and I
Inescapable

 

Painting by Deena Warner

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Arachne

Gina Wisker

Come, my sweet new love
let me
bid you welcome!
To the possibilities of so much
Delight.
Fine, refined, exquisite –
You should come closer now –
enticed by this lady
in red.
Closer and closer –
how I need you to – you
will find
the delicacy and the desire
intertwining.
Arms around me.
A slow dance perhaps.
A slow and eternal
embrace.
Closer now.
Your hands.
My back—
Luxuriating.
My cool skin.
The slightest bite.
My fine web.

Oh my love.


'Black Widow' by Deena Warner

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