Sharon Philips: a poem

Lintel

years twist

through its grain

an acorn ripened

radicle unfurled

sapwood dried

to heartwood

the beam dark

with soot

and softened

by rot

initials scored

in the timber

leaves spindled

to earth

EN + CR

1904

Sharon Phillips lives in Otley, West Yorkshire. Her poems have been published online and in print, most recently in the Places of Poetry anthology, Sarasvati and The Dawntreader.