biomorphic geometry
magic genes are magic beans making
the stalks grow strange ly
creates re / sist / ance
cropping
fractured treebones
eek-o-log-y
herbicidal maniacs engineering re /vers / al
lang leah
in the swathe of densely annotated corridors
everything becomes a poem the ivory render splayed / shimmering/ lurking
among the dark conifers / boxed blackwater a salty batch of words to weave & wave shepherds now lost / like rough highways in the stolen pauses & a thicket beckons from the
ether’s lonely imprint
take me to the lizard landscape / where all the words I ever knew / the worlds I never knew /
whirl helter skelter / finding their place their space / blameless / aimless / seeking respite
despite buffering snapdragons envelop me & gorge
UK based neurodivergent writer Jane Ayres completed a Creative Writing MA at the University of Kent in 2019 aged 57. Her work is in Lighthouse, Streetcake, The North, Acropolis Journal, Selcouth Station, Kissing Dynamite, (mac)ro(mic), ubu, Crow of Minerva, Beir Bua Journal, Ample Remains, Sledgehammer and The Forge. As one of the winners of the 2021 Laurence Sterne Prize, her first collection edible will be published by Beir Bua Press in April 2022. Jane tweets at https://twitter.com/workingwords50