Two Poems

we all want a happy ending (without jagged edges)

silk-tongued             (shedding spilt milk that splits glass) 

dawn unfurls randomly         shallow-gleamed         a new day 

jutting re-imagined          in my head / in my heart      

an unwinding    (lambs to the slaughter)      

fill me                             (don’t film me)

tilt & slit           the porous ripple of your 

phosphorescent kiss   (st)utters             fresh earth / mossy breath 

i am visceral                but there is still a gap in the fence

looking for coded eels

a child’s fingers reach
into red earth

beneath my bare feet
pulsating seed 
heads whisper a promise

below the surface
my scattered family
speak again

saying goodbye 
but hanging on to 
keepsakes just in case

the heart undressed
tiptoes collecting
tongue-coins

while ivy robed trees
claw for light
in a filigree sky

dandelion clocks shed time.
i pause. a perfect circle

U.K. based neurodivergent writer Jane Ayres rediscovered poetry studying for a part-time Creative Writing MA at the University of Kent, which she completed in 2019 at the age of 57. She enjoys Open Mic events, is fascinated by hybrid poetry/prose experimental forms, and has work published and accepted in Confluence, Postscript, Dissonance, The Agonist, Lighthouse, Viscaria, The Sock Drawer, Streetcake, The North, The Poetry Village, Scrittura, Door is a Jar, Marble, Crow & Cross Keys, Agapanthus, Confingo, Kissing Dynamite and The Forge.

Artwork by Garreth Chan