Interpreting and Expressing Visual Ideas to Match Text

I Know What It Was

They said it was just

an owl in the tree

but they didn’t

fool me!

I saw teeth

not a beak,

red eyes

not gold,

and I won’t be told

it was only fluff and feathers

round its thorat;

it was a collar

and those weren’t wings

and the silky folds

of a black, black cloak

That was no

Too-wit, too woo

I heard

It was

I’ll get you-ou!

Patricia Leighton