Courage – and Whimsy!

In the days and nights of ancients
Their poets called to the sky for gods
and monsters
Mirror, mirage responded instead
the sea and the shimmering sands:
Three flatfish-faced women
whose countenance can kill
And a shark-fin-decked lizard
from the outback Austral.

If you're venturing out
and your heart must not flag
Fill a grail with some Gorgon
blood – force will not fail –
And the dragon chameleon
will lend you a scale
that the colors of mystery
and wonder attend.