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

ARIZONA HABOOB / Feathered Gods

The walker came down from Tucson last night just after seven
striding the horizon in phainein form; the strider appeared
an occurrence extraordinaire as if a god from out a cloud
ten thousand feet tall had just arrived for dinner.

I was out grilling salmon when the feathered one swallowed
the mountains on the horizon at the edge of town and not quite
done, I snatched the foil pan from the fire and ran before the
great one began shedding its skin all over my supper.


Some folks I know call the walker “old man”; some call him
the storm serpent and some just say “Avanyu Sendo comes hither”
and mean something biblical and primordial, a tall strider
big as god moves like a serpent behind a wall of dust.


When Avanyu walks the sun fades; Avanyu is hungry and it is
the dinner hour. The serpent is no invited guest and so I hide
indoors and eat my fish watching as he swallows Phoenix
on TV. I can just as easily watch it from the front window.


Considering it’s a storm god, I hospitably relent and agree to share
repast by the window. Avanyu’s tongue is made of barbed
lightening and dining with the serpent god can be more
than a spectacle should there be dinner conversation.

Avanyu is no good in his youth the story goes; folk gossip in dread
P’o anyu is a monster who threatens to flood because he, nearly one
hundred miles wide, is a big boy is all; he means well folk say
into the swollen street swallowed earlier in a wall of dust.


Tonight he’s more polite in watching what comes out of his mouth
although, a diminished flood of sorts pours out when he opens it
and this is true because dining with any god is one wild party; the
cleaning up afterward takes all next day and requires a hose.

I can’t help thinking TallStrider a kind of benevolent serpent, too
while the hose, what comes out of its mouth, descends like a river
onto the patio floor to rid the way my dinner guest could chew and
how, the way Avanyu left last night in a hurry, made his clothes fall off.




©2011 Feathered Gods stephanie pope Bugs & Monsters mythopoetry.com