Chalice

You are invited
to the special dinner
where I’m turning
turning the blood
on the costume
a birthmark shaped
like a question
on your lips
there is a wasp
an asp in my milk
you would have me fail.

 

Trelawney has been shortlisted and commended in the Bridport and Winchester Poetry Prizes respectively; finalist in the Munster Literature Centre’s International Chapbook Competition 2022; and has work published in the Broken Sleep anthology of modern Cornish poets, The Alchemy Spoon, Southword and other publications.