Maleficium

by Mara G. Shearer

The owl screeches
From the beeches
The flying bats
And prowling cats
The ring intact
A proven fact
The witches prance
Their coven dance
Night approaches
Dark encroaches
Virgin ready
Knife held steady
Plunges down
In blood to drown

Image by Kayla Maurais

Mara G. Shearer

Mara G. Shearer – Mara was a precocious child and learned how to anagram at age 5, the same year she won a poetry competition in the local paper and was published for the first time. It was downhill from there and it would be another forty-ish years before she was published again. When not writing she likes to dive into other artistic pursuits and can be found designing jewelry (www.palomino-designs.co.uk) and starting a writing retreat business (www.risianretreats.com).

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