The Gorgon Auntie, A Lost Story
Mar 6th, 2010 | 6 responses
THE GORGON AUNTIE, A Lost Story
She has a midget husband. They lived in a clone trailer. She notices things. Like, she thinks every person has a different color mouth, and her words come out accordingly.
She acts like she is bestowing highnesses and knighthoods as she shuffles to and from every silver shovel event, to fourth-rate art show, in her very pointy high heels, with her penciled on clown brows, her dusty white face powder over her skin five times darker, and her uneven lips, sometimes so chapped there is dried blood.
Some loathe to hear her hoof beats galloping down the hallway. Aside from her condescending and insincere and cruel comments, we have seen people nearly die of asphyxiation from her excessive face powder.
Yet…
though she is mean as spit.
We love her anyway.
She is our gorgon
She is our very own faulted
family dragon.
We feed her,
clean her
shelter her
as we have for years.
Why? Because we once saw at least two
fabulous flashes of her true
soul which is still completely
pure and loving and living
underground.
We consider her enchanted
by some whiskered, wicked fairy king.
It is we who have failed
thus far to find
the magic key
to break the spell,
but we have learned
to break her spell on us.
We are still searching for
the spell breaker for her.
We believe she is still
in there,
completely whole
and beautiful,
enfolded,
like a tender child
inside a new rose.
___________
CODA
“Gorgons sometimes are depicted as having wings of gold, brazen claws, the tusks of boars, but most often with the fangs and skin of a serpent.”
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6 Responses to “The Gorgon Auntie, A Lost Story”
Surely, Mélusine would send an amical hello to all the serpent's family members.
(about Mélusine, who sometimes is benefic, see : http://www.mythofrancaise.asso.fr/mythes/figure…)
This is a fascinating post Dr. E; thank you for sharing. Clicking on your link was very informative. I didn't realize that Medusa was a Gorgon and that there were three sisters. So I spent about an hour this morning reading the wiki article you linked to along with some of the links provided there. Next thing I know I'm reading about Perseus slaying Medusa, the birth of Pegasus, and the creation of the Atlas mountains. Many of these stories I had forgotten about, but I am glad that you sent me on this educational journey this morning. The coffee is good, I don't have to work, and the weather is beginning to come around
I suspect this is about my great aunt Kate.
It certainly rings true.
Beautiful. Thanks
DrE, if we were Greek, you would be the goddess of … er .. ahem ..got it! Eternal enlightenment. — Jer
This story kinda reminds me of the ancient powers beleived hidden beneath the exterior of statues before B.C
such as the dragon,s tail in Chemistry/saced science/theo, pretty complicated but has a truth about the ferceness displayed in art form passed down through the centuries.