Margot Myers

Philomel

After ‘Presentiment’, a painting by David Inshaw

Across the lawn
sun shooting its diagonals
I watch the mad cedar
my

exquisite
tongue scat-
tered song crotched
in the sour
privet.

Obelisk knobs and spiral
wired ilex box the blundering yew. Deep skirts.
They took their knives.

Margot Myers lives in Oxford. She has been placed or commended in several competitions including Havant, Winchester, Bridport Flash Fiction and Cinnamon, and has poems published in The Interpreter's House, Under the Radar, Poetry News, and in four Emma Press anthologies.