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Belonging
Night is gentle with us, the sky stays a little longer, blushing orange as it kisses the sea, you kiss me, suddenly, and I am a calamity, warm wherever your hands explore, precious pads on my fine floral prints. Menthol meets the wine you had an hour ago, your tongue, talking softly to my painted…
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Brown Eyes, Staring Into Brown Eyes
I began writing about your eyes, how I love the lines that live beside them, the juxtaposition of the youthful glimmer and the aged glamour. I was going to write about your eyes, but I saw them watching me, shining, sweet, so nervous, begging your lips to ask, if I was bored. I think about…
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The Flight Was Cancelled
I told you that my heart was not an airport. It was not a place for easy arrivals or departures, but there you stood, one foot inside the gate, one foot out, swaying from side to side, with a cruel smile, telling me that you would go where you pleased. I want to ground every…
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The Girl With The Hopelessly Romantic Heart
Inside my corpse, is a gallery. Haunted, harrowing harm, that I inflicted on myself, a collection of corpses, within my corpse, that is kept warm, by my eternally beating, broken heart. I don’t know that I ever existed, sometimes I looked at myself as a museum of my muses, how they slipped through my fingers,…
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Sincerely, Jennifer x – S04E46 – Move House With Me!
On today’s episode, Jennifer shares some new poems, and talks about the invisibility of older women, moving house, renewal after hardship, finding new love, and what happens at the end of the human experience. Jennifer also updates you on recent events in British politics, including Esther McVey giving us prime cringe content, the implosion of…