Daphne

No
more
running.
Your toes curl,
claws rooting themselves,
limbs locking rigid at their joints
as your blood coagulates turning red into green.
When you feel your flesh gnarl solid,
danger is shut out,
you watch us,
immobile,
eyes
cold



Daphne is a nymph dedicated to virginity. She is desired by Apollo. She runs away from him pleading
with the other gods to change her from her womanly form. She is transformed into a laurel tree and granted
immortality, becoming evergreen.