Lisa Jewell

dreaming down a familiar footpath
I felt my back tightly grip the wall

once in our time
my lack of sanity
made his smile
breeze

today
I am no longer the star child
I am grou…

would you like me to tell you about
the sugar cane
becoming the candy apple
a sweet
nemesis eating your grass skirt
the
echo of a harpsichord
breathing beautiful love
sitting on yo…

erich – i miss my howitzer but the fines got to be too much
Lisa – A 19th century Christmas almanac wrapped in brown paper tied with string arrived in the mail today

erich – did you he…

Joan
felt a chill
she was not afraid

tied to the last secret
flames left her breathless
water
glistened on her memory bundle

weakness
worshipped everything that seemed perfe…

I wove plaits tonight; I don’t suppose I have plaited my hair since I was a girl. In front of the mirror, mirror on the wall. I stood. My will was lucid. No “who is the fairest of them all…

He could not have realised. It was just another day. There had been no signs laced into his dream. The morning was as it was the previous. The alarm shrilled. He lingered for only a brief m…

Outside of all the comfort required
she became a million times
something else
over hand and foot
watching with eyes wide open
believing the sparrow song
toted
love

How did s…

I woke with the fallen angel
licking apocalyptic shiva(s) into my holy land

boring into my bones
he sucked away the stained marrow of my life

A reel of saffron thread
embossed a pattern upon my lover’s tongue
Aphrodite’s girdle slipped away like yesterday

no trickery
stitched
a weave around my frame

no siren
lullaby…

a green caterpillar
slept comfortably in the groove between my thumb and index finger
his dream circled a halo then caressed my face
inviting me to see things I’d not thought to accept a…

music tickles every pore of my body with its celestial feathery fingers
seeping deeply within

mixing a new juice into the blood that sings through my veins
between my head and heart t…

from my core pitch black abyss
a rumble
desecrated my illusions
breaking Adam’s rib
bone shards
left a trail on the yellow brick road
roses immortalised by glass panes
shattered
…

shiva slipped between the crisp black sheets fixed to my pyre bed.
I fell into a snow white sleep, blocking out the seven degrees of my new found separation.

Sugar coated memories fill…

A rose wore only a black veil
her Hecate flesh
renounced itself in the valley of the Queens
lips carved
from the holy sunrise
turned to bone
her soul
was stolen
during the winter …

The archetypal Amish star quilt of all colours
mummified my body
inviting me into a dream of the heavens

Inanna braided her underworld dreams into mine
spilling nectar of truth onto th…

her alabaster lip
pouted
seductively

her tangled spirit
rolled
achingly

her desire for touch
spilled
into waiting hands

her tears
washed
all the feet that walked into…

It was a pleasant evening and it would seem my countenance was well received to the extent that an invitation was extended for tomorrow evening.

I am unsettled by advances of affection from…

I dreamt my perfect lover
lived
he kept time with the ebb and flow of my captivated membrane
misplacement chased away disgrace
he held me tightly
I ran with rolling hills
lined with…

Gathering her lunar thoughts into a linear blueprint required the utmost personal strength. Her Durendal strength had been forged from the gospel of her fading heart.
A betraying tear droppe…

a dancing queen bestowed the honour of guarding her family heirloom
while she sang to the restless night
the seeds of apple angels
danced her into the mortal morn

I ploughed
picking …