Jane Eyre

'Hush, Jane! you think too much of the love of human beings; you are too impulsive, too vehement: the sovereign hand that created your frame, and put life into it, has provided you with other resources than your feeble self, or than creatures feeble as you.'

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We Fall in a Fountain

All the things I used to believe in fall in cascades around me.

I am one person, in the land of broken spirits.
I stand up and try try try to believe.

All I do is try try try to write.
I tell myself often enough.

But obviously not enough.
Finally, maybe, hopefully.

A bear-hug, a kiss, a warmful of love, and maybe we can heal each other.
This is the day. 

And tomorrow I stop dying.

- Shu -

Buffo

I had wings the other day
With sparkly manik sewn on them
They were pink, gold, green, grey
And ginger for my spinal stem

Like Buffo the Great, the Master Clown*
I wore everything inside outside
So when my soul was beaten down
You could see my bladder all cried out

With poppy seeds the colour of beige
Hanging on my nerve-ends like false earrings
Heavy and strange they made me weigh
But still I made myself back-hand spring

The clown did not smile for me
Neither did I for him
But when she told me she was a lady
I cried and gave her my wings

- Shu -


* Nights at the Circus, Angela Carter