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Lover of Jane Eyre by Abigail George

July 1, 2015 by Every Writer

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Lover of Jane Eyre

by Abigail George

Infirm in old age –
Of dark, mocking falling leaves.
A Kafkaesque quiet.

Laws of attraction –
The pain body of summer.
Black hair is my fish.

Another country –
Whales. Poetic explosions.
Tapestries of flesh.

Pomegranate tree –
I am wet through. My arms rain.
Code written in braille.

Lost in translation –
Never tell the whole story.
Worship the body.

Thanks for the water fat –
The wreck is tangled in leaves –
Spells smashes the glass.

Moth and butterfly –
We will go to the black grave.
With your cursed language.

Metamorphosis –
Letters of hope. Suffering.
From that hot climate.

All things Orlando –
Bodies found in the wetlands.
Women disappeared.

Fed on coconut –
Women must keep diaries.
The bedroom is cold.

Endangered species –
Joy fills my lungs with ice wolves.
The milk flowers. A-white-mess.

Psychosis. Sadness –
There are two kinds of decay.
Echoes too have routes.
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Abigail George, a Pushcart Prize nominee writes a weekly article/commentary for Modern Diplomacy, was recently anthologised in the Sol Plaatje EU Poetry Anthology IV. A feminist, poet, writer she contributes bimonthly to a symposium on the Ovi Magazine: Finland’s English Online Magazine. She is the recipient of grants from ECPACC, the Centre or the Book and the National Arts Council in South Africa.She has written a novella, noveltini, books of poetry, collections of short stories and a play. She was born and raised in the coastal city of Port Elizabeth, the Eastern Cape of South Africa, educated there and in Swaziland and Johannesburg.

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