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final curtain by Lisa Jewell

Loll / black flower teardrop petals on my cop it on the chin / Idle / caught: my knee deep in murky shadow puppets / Sing / restless foot in the grave haphazard hand in the blue / Action / hit… 242 words

Carbon detonation by Lisa Jewell

I caught myself doing that relative black hole stare. My mass felt an event horizon opening. I asked a friend for a heart telescope. The corner of his lip became my mechanic. Hope. He witnessed and … 155 words

not always pretty by Lisa Jewell

i did not receive the golden tablet / engraved with life is always beautiful / i chipped out a stone block / with my fingernails / working into the night after the long day of Hades / and shaped … 198 words

freefall by Lisa Jewell

claim. / relax. / cleanse. / expand. / radiate. / allow / the die down. / place / your heart on the altar / visualise / a station / get off. / sustain. / next window / look in / ever after. / w… 92 words

never again - closing time by Lisa Jewell

the scars on her heart / numbered / l / o / n / g / the words still tumbled over her lips / stay / time over the past reflection / wrestled in her belly / the homeland / focussed on the only real … 129 words

bowing my head in reverence by Lisa Jewell

i climbed the accent of your mind / (toting my black and white heart) / to the doorway branded with the soul alphabet / i raised your roots / from the hard mourning / you / circled your pain aroun… 139 words

one layer gone the light and dark will always be me by Lisa Jewell

I know of the art deco pick a part mirror / and the get up to the cock crow thrice / Alexandre Dumas / painted with words a man into an iron mask / Yin and Yang beat the (daily) blues / out on Hopi… 191 words

mistaken identity by Lisa Jewell

i willed it. / your wild needle tongue / scraped away the dry skin from my lips (thank you) / and the girth of your scorpion tail / was excited to enter my domain / did you really think / the linen p… 108 words

tomorrow by Lisa Jewell

in a sacred lullaby we adore / both / good and bad me / a ceremony / true to our loved selves / born / of ages / swept up in the moon / i use a fingertip covered with cupid lines / to touch skin to s… 136 words

i know it by Lisa Jewell

it is in the secret other things / a million dollar splendour is / stashed in the steeple spouting from my crown / the oak scaffold / holds my centre piece together / the foolish wind / swept my s… 155 words

benediction for the unknown by Lisa Jewell

i thought of you / alone / wrestling / with the dancing pages / i held / the night / i comforted the drums / with / my Celtic tongue of flames / chanting Dante’s prayer / Avalon’s angels / … 131 words

eleventh hour by Lisa Jewell

you did not expect to wake / as you did not mean to acquiesce / in the love / and end with wounds that split your atom / or / you did expect / that the wakening / would always be split / you think ab… 214 words

a friend in need houses sonnets in their eyes by Lisa Jewell

Dearest Friend, / The hour is late and the dark light has shawled the cotton candy aura you left to protect my being. I am not frightened. Do you recall the afternoon we spent under the willow… 245 words

now by Lisa Jewell

Yesterday. / the beautiful soul child / left / I did not send her away / she fell in love with all the simple things / I had no idea how to find / Today. / a natural high / not of my creation … 88 words

unlikely inspiration by Lisa Jewell

skin penetrating inspiration / settles into the mark of pain on my lower back / there are no bad luck charms / fastened to the soles of my bare feet / or spilt salt to flick at the wishing star … 204 words

tell me by Lisa Jewell

it / is not always tied with a ribbon of clichés / i walked home alone / again. / my shadows / brushed / a centre piece / i am the very least. / a woman riddled with questions / pressed up against… 114 words

sigh by Lisa Jewell

I watched the clouds move and change form as I stood with my back to the ivy tower that surrounds my home. I had a serene moment after an Everest of internal squabbling. / Pink dusk watched on as I … 186 words

for she and for me by Lisa Jewell

i walk without a safety net across the notched oak life limb. / under the forgiving moon, i dance naked and chant in mixed tongue, Gregorian chants. i keep a balance of who you will see. i rock my … 140 words

a kiss (experience) by Lisa Jewell

the line / “come away with me” is not my original / but I am / as you are / listen my imaginary trusted love / i would bake you a summer day cake / stir the day moon into silky icing / to top / a… 117 words

a simple dream catch by Lisa Jewell

gentle / gentleness / softly / soft / drifting / drifter / i was dreaming / a constant / consistent / dream / no limiting / limits / an oak fairy / held me by / the beating sign / she pierced / a lif… 68 words

serial by Lisa Jewell

i was not going to write. i was going to sit in my green velvet wingback chair and stare into the dusk light and count down the change to pitch. / a random event, housing more voices than i can coun… 157 words

i've got to see you by Lisa Jewell

it is not the same way every time i close my eyes / oh but the runaway / calls me to safety / there is a budding haven / a / i knew your voice / a mountain beauty / and the snowflakes / dust th… 65 words

the shadow & the nervous white light tell a little s... by Lisa Jewell

a sad man fashioned an invisible (i want her) umbilical cord out of his desperate desire to discover his dormant feelings. at an underground coffee stop while i sat musing about the rich red earth c… 101 words

chainmail by Lisa Jewell

I cannot be sure, can you? What I believe happened. / A hummingbird hovered between my eyes. (I realise you think I’m channelling the mad hatter.) I kept still. My breathing reduced to inaudible,… 203 words

maybe i am still a child by Lisa Jewell

i did not think i’d be here / but / a smudge in the night / rolled / my ink blue slip / between my thighs / (the odds / are like promises un-kept) / my mares had supped / with the bad seed night … 133 words

self pity happens don’t fight it write it out by Lisa Jewell

i know what is wrong; i can measure it by the length my brethren have walked. there is a sound i hear just before i close my eyes. i often wonder does anybody else hear it. i hesitate. if I’ve take… 171 words

goat song (act 1) by Lisa Jewell

once in time. / A sun blessed land and a girlhood heart rejoiced in orange blossom fruit and groves of plump olives. Shifting through marigolds in a white cotton dress, pocked with dirt and aquamar… 207 words

and the cave is drawing me in by Lisa Jewell

words are hard to score when your heart is bereft. I understand change. I don’t have to always like it. I miss you. / when did love start fitting like a rotten skin? 41 words

bird of paradise and a blood rose by Lisa Jewell

her endless love voice / knits the torn / and pearls the reborn / threads / that dangle purple and white / from the corner of my mind / and the centre of my heart / It was coming up on my dusk a… 149 words

I never could pull off a good poker face by Lisa Jewell

There is no pretence in being contradictory. If I travel from the east then shift course and hitch a ride on the back of the west wind, am I a free spirit or am I flighty? I can wake with my shatter… 163 words

experimental by Lisa Jewell

A heart larva / once upon a hopeful chrysalis / lived safely inside my (flock together like birds of a feather) cage / amongst love songs and skyscraper dreams / our symbiotic existence / champio… 114 words

please Lisa don’t forget to turn your page by Lisa Jewell

my mind has misplaced the pitchfork of war / Aestas begs the dove to attend the summer clap / a daily bread ingredient weaves into my raven hair / if you exit my naked truth / leaving a trail of s… 105 words

no explanation, it is not a school yard crush by Lisa Jewell

I met a fiddler / down a dark barren street / he wore a black rose in his lapel / his spindly fingers / weathered the angels strings / his great love had threaded / centuries before the apple dr… 117 words

invisible during a game of snakes and ladders by Lisa Jewell

On the day of aspire if you pay attention to the cyanide car fumes and spitting body perspiration you run the risk of missing the seeing hunter. The court room is empty. The judge retired. The st… 173 words

no protection tonight by Lisa Jewell

it is simple / no fancy speech / the kitchen is clean / the air is filled / with the scissor scent / of part / you / and part me / egyptian cotton sheets / tease / our laughing up a storm / … 90 words

Postcard from the centre of my mind by Lisa Jewell

No consideration is given to attire when spiralling into an unknown land. I tugged tightly on my satin robe making sure I was decent to meet the unknown. In my left hand of hope I clutched a post… 365 words

Incubus by Lisa Jewell

paralysed by a polished mantle trophy / a summoned demon crushes my joints / feeding off my amber marrow / his brimstone tipped tongue / laces scorching saliva swirls / onto my less than pure fle… 54 words

how many parts walk an alley by Lisa Jewell

I walked home alone / thinking / what if I turned tricks? / and / what if I licked my lips / while / holding hands with a demon / would / I no longer be sweet / if / I looked for ways home / … 139 words

parts crafted anew in dreams by Lisa Jewell

the oak of my limbs / is notched / with timeless parables / the curve of my threshold / houses / The lady of Shallot / my dreams / silver solder / lost treasure island parts / Harpocrates touc… 65 words

duo by Lisa Jewell

the harlequin lives between the concentric pattern of a fingerprint / nimbly avoiding the line / she fishes for man in the silent dark noise / and reaps / let there be light / betwixt / a renovat… 85 words

Quill feather and a promised land by Lisa Jewell

I hold a feathery quill to my face and gather up my heart / my mind is set to discover the cornerstone secret / I watch holy water drip down the wall / when it puddles / I’ll sprout silvery gills… 160 words

whole world slumber by Lisa Jewell

I thought about the whole world coming to an end / then I fell into your pages / the day I discovered your spine / and turned your insides into mine / the day your ink heart / tattooed the end and… 97 words

hallucination by Lisa Jewell

mummified by Hades furnace / I stepped into a hallucination / my heart carries the key / the moon swung low / inviting me to swing into an evergreen field / inside my pitter patter mind / blue g… 111 words

Six hour intervals, blue, red, white and me by Lisa Jewell

Blue / Love / would not hurt if I had a wooden heart / splaying sunlight permeates the air with / my dreamer’s frankincense / coming to rest in the curves of the drape that covers my heart / Red / … 100 words

Good Morning, Goodnight, Good Light by Lisa Jewell

As the light of Artemis slowly wound around the moon spool / I looked into her face and stared gratitude / for she has warmed my skin on the days I’ve walked beneath her power / and she has warm… 114 words

on a known comfort horizon by Lisa Jewell

I cast the first stone / against my skin / I willed / the absolute soul bloom / I ventured into unchartered stone age territory / my child self slipped beneath my wing / and I had to stay / for… 135 words

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