"lucid", "inside flat 7" & "deviant vellum (other flammable narrative wrappings are also available)" by Jane Ayres

lucid 

linen words 

like sugared 

twine 

twice pilfered 

filtered words 

flit 

filleted

hung out 

to dry with the angels 

beneath my skin

liminal words 

coil

barely formed

oven ready

unmeasured

spoiling for a fight

did you get what you came for?

your open throat

chasing scars

good to go

inside flat 7

when all the people were gone

(operation chimera) 

pared citrus sunshine 

synthetic rose-hinged dawns     

kindred rendered 

shimmering paper 

stories simmer

(untethered)

to share & tell

tear & sell

the porous heart weeps 

kissing seared space

needle-planting 

cut-throat candy

the melting canvas 

a moment 

not a life

ablaze

deviant vellum (other flammable narrative wrappings are also available)

meet my narrator

smart & strange

smouldering

(yet blood-spattered)

he kindles nightmares

(firestarter)

sits himself inside a pocket

ink on torched bone

(where are his eyes?)

(where are his eyes?)

volcanic rage turns to snow

(as) you lie

all broken up inside

spliced offcuts

(it’s only weird if you make it weird)

ravenous 

for the midnight feast

he eats you alive

the lilac edit

ignites

UK based neurodivergent writer Jane Ayres re-discovered poetry studying for a part-time Creative Writing MA at the University of Kent, which she completed in 2019 at the age of 57. In 2020, she was longlisted for the Rebecca Swift Foundation Women Poets’ Prize and in 2021, she was shortlisted for the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award and a winner of the Laurence Sterne Prize. Longlisted for the Kari Flickinger Memorial Prize for Chapbooks in 2023, she has also been nominated for Best of the Net in 2021 and 2023, and a Pushcart Prize in 2022.

Her first collection edible was published by Beir Bua Press (July 2022) and her micro-chapbook my lost womb still sings to me was published by Porkbelly Press (October 2023). Her poetry has appeared in over 100 publications and can be heard on Eat the Storms, Upload, Blue Door to the Cosmos, O Bhéal and Medway River Lit.

Website: janeayreswriter.wordpress.com      Twitter: @workingwords50

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