Medusa (Anindita Sengupta)

Did you look in the mirror one day and
find that you had grown used to it? The hair -
gleaming, little coils, each one tensile
as rope; the tongue quick and sharp as sunlight;
eyes vast in that thin face, deeper than earth.
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I liked everything except the line "the girl walking calmly to meet the sea" and the word "rainsoaked".
Love the last 2 stanzas.
Aparna -milika