My Iris Holds

by Sarah Mayo

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a midnight dance

a butterfly conjured

at dusk, foreshadows

aflutter, toads 

teasing you

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with a lick

of their skin, 

a ballroom dress

swishing in a cell, 

a body tilting

towards the moon.

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Sarah Mayo is a South Wales based poet. Her poetry appears in ‘Here: A Poetry Journal’, ‘Poem Alone’, ‘Republic Magazine’, ‘Subversion’ (Minerva Rising Press), ‘Screech’, ‘Locust Shells Journal’, the ‘High Rise Slimline’ volume (The Broken Spine) and in Spell Jar Press, Dreich and Cicada Song Press publications. Her flash fiction appears in the Wicked Shadow Press ‘Femme Fatale Flashes’ anthology. She edits the local literary art zine ‘Valleys’ Imaginings’ and she also enjoys creating art in her spare time.