From Writing Notebook 2021, published in 2022.
257.
all the secrecy
a warehouse by the river
holds in its four walls
one careless hand will reveal.
Uncurl your fingers. The key.
5/26/21
258.
Strong-willed from her birth
and contrary of nature
Love her sharp-tongued taunts
You fools who think to cross her
be prepared: she will draw blood.
6/14/21
Claudia McGill Writes Poetry, Did You Know That? 
Such fierceness!
Yes. Sometimes I feel you have to bare your teeth a little!
I love the pen portrait of the ferocious woman and I am very intrigued by what might be inside that warehouse.
Mystery and intensity, I will never get tired of trying to find ways to portray them or examine them.