In my head, grow your images:

a Medusa: snakes in a chokehold

stronger than tumors.

The Third One (from the epic)

was the beloved.

I give myself to you

for the books on your bed;

like a golden serpent in your home

winding around you in a tight embrace.

Or like Lilith to Adam.

But you have chosen Eve

or Penelope to return to.

I have Calypso’s memory

of seven lifetimes…

and grow a crown of snakes

as placeholders for your images.

                                                                                ~ Jagari Mukherjee

                                                                              Kolkata, India