Ceri Marriott is a language specialist, writing poetry and short fiction in English and French. She has had work published by Nottingham Writers' Studio, Charnwood Arts, Plum Tree Tavern, The Cherita, Poetry Nation, Friday Flash Fiction, Mobius: The Journal of Social Change, and the Japan Society, London. Ceri tutors and lectures at Coventry University, UK.

Ceri Marriott

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Last Supper Of The Praying Mantis

I wonder if you'd care to dance
With me
She asked,
The mask
Of tactical submission
Replaced
By an air
Of persuasive
Predation
To which the male
Sex
Is still so very
Unaccustomed.