| i. Medusa* The green sweatered woman rounds the corner, the wind whips her hair. Tiny serpents coil and uncoil. I freeze in her sight. ii. Cassandra** I can see but cannot say. You will win, entirely slay. We can fight, still cannot sway your forces. iii. Nausica�*** You say you wander, your heart sacrificed to one across the sea. Despite your nakedness I am touched by your geniality. I do not doubt the grief you share in spite of your virility. |
| * A Gorgon, who has serpents for hair, and when one looks at her, s/he is turned to stone **The Prophet, but who was cursed (by Apollo), so people never believed her prophecies. She foresaw the Trojan War and that the Trojan Horse was a trick. *** The young woman who discovered the naked Odysseus washed up on the shore while she was doing her laundry and playing ball with her friends. |
| Women of Myth |