i wake in a different body
being less than i was
emptied out
through the bloody keyhole
my old home / my new home
the same / not the same
i dis/solve
wide shingle skies / speckled walkways
where charcoal-crushed violets fizzle
black silt flaking / spiky connective tissue
books shelved / dust heavy / intent layered
worlds unexplored / paths not yet navigated
unimagined / the invisible writer / freshly minted
eats everything

UK based neurodivergent writer Jane Ayres completed a Creative Writing MA at the University of Kent in 2019 at the age of 57. She loves experimental hybrid writing and her first collection edible will be published by Beir Bua Press in July 2022. Her micro-chapbook my lost womb still sings to me is published by Porkbelly Press in 2022/23
Website: janeayreswriter.wordpress.com Twitter: @workingwords50