HUNTING THE (MISSING) BODY OF MEDUSA

Medusa means "protectress" in Greek; in Spanish, "jellyfish"

HER MISSING BODY

n_  _h (?)  _h, n_! what lingers in deep, blank space like a jellyfish ©2013 mythopoetry.com stephanie pope “Her Missing Body” photo credit: ©2013 David Sherr

MEDUSA

In Spanish "Medusa" means jellyfish

Under The Sea

Medusa, spirit of depths where three
Deimos, Phobos, Eros linger
eternally



©2013 mythopoetry.com  monsters and bugs poetry series
stephanie pope, "Under The Sea"
#ohj "lingers' and "jellyfish" July 30, 2013


 
notes

Medusa /myth of

see Metamorphoses Book V, Ovid,  Book IV , line 898.

 see also video: part 1
                      part 2
                      part 3


mythopoetics/ the image in art/

see "Medusa", Arnold Bocklin/ see http://www.arnoldbocklin.org/Medusa.html
also see  The Weeping Gorgon by momothecat/DeviantArt 

jellyfish
video: David Sherr, Aquarium of the Bay
video: DeepBlueYT

photo credits
©2013 David Sherr “Jellyfish” Aquarium of the Bay



Medusa /Greek meaning
-guardian, protectress


                  / Spanish meaning
-jellyfish