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Jane Ayres

 

 

Deathbed Fantasia

as now melts                             & nowhere goes nowhere 
we wash up                               breathless
a box of blue light                      star-cushioned 

harvesting morphine-thick razorlick-blueberry-pinch

& my sub-tropical heart 
will punctuate the idea of treacling hope
puncturing the sense of a book

Opacity.
(it is not enough it is not enough)
find the version of yourself      with sharpened corners
urge it forwards

& now the blue makes sense. kind of. 

 

Jane Ayres was shortlisted for the 2021 Aesthetica Creative Writing Award. Her first collection edible was published by Beir Bua Press (July 2022) and micro-chapbook my lost womb still sings to me published by Porkbelly Press (October 2023)

Annie Kissack

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