Jane Ayres

rewilding


post-menopausal ribbons
of candied breath
follow the wildflowers
learning how to hold in joy

the crow in the pantry
iridescent
mushroomed moments marbling
luminous resistance

i never could
wear another woman’s dresses
rearranging words shaped like peaches
disrupting fish-eggs

pain crab-apple sharp
needling unhappening
let’s move to the moon
embroider the kitchen

every shade of banana silk
enamel yellowing my
skin now turmeric
ambered replicas

sulphurous malice licked clean
picking at loose threads you
speak stealing the words i
am about to utter

while severed trees
turn
a platonic shade of midnight
blue



UK based neurodivergent writer Jane Ayres completed a Creative Writing MA at the University of Kent in 2019 aged 57. She is fascinated by hybrid poetry/prose experimental forms and has work in Dissonance, Confluence, Ink Drinkers Poetry, Lighthouse, Streetcake, The North, The Poetry Village, Door is a Jar, Kissing Dynamite, (mac)ro(mic), Versification, Crow & Cross Keys, Ample Remains, Sledgehammer and The Forge.
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