Hadley Dion
Self Portrait as the Shark from Jaws
Men will hunt you as if they own
the Atlantic. Never satiated
by the land in their name, they still want
every depth of your dark
sea. Possess you,
drag their hooks through your skin.
They call me
predator, like my body isn’t on the end
of their spears.
Silly boys.
My blood is arsenic and mercury and yet
I swim. I am
torpedo and prehistoric
spirit. I am summer
blockbuster. I am
sequel after sequel.
Men will hunt you as if they own
the Atlantic. Never satiated
by the land in their name, they still want
every depth of your dark
sea. Possess you,
drag their hooks through your skin.
They call me
predator, like my body isn’t on the end
of their spears.
Silly boys.
My blood is arsenic and mercury and yet
I swim. I am
torpedo and prehistoric
spirit. I am summer
blockbuster. I am
sequel after sequel.
Hadley Dion is a writer, audio editor, and filmmaker from Los Angeles. She is a frequent contributor to Witches Mag and you can find her web series, I Would Have Kissed You, on Twisted Mirror TV. Hadley is fond of self-help books, lapel pins, cats, and ghosts.