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World Queen
When I was so small, that being a woman, was a far away fairy tale, I saw a ticking clock, each morning, when I met the gaze of the mirror. Intuitively, I was aware, that there were only so many moments, to collect all the trophies I had promised myself, in between birthing and bridal…
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Let There Be Love
Sometime around my seventeenth birthday, in fact, exactly on my seventeenth birthday, I was sat, crowded by people who loved me, staring down a cake, that made me anxious, making a wish, for someone else to love me, differently, obviously. I wasted a wish, on a waste of time, waiting for too long, for the…
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Hunger Pains
I think I was ten. Wearing midnight blue, in the middle of the day. My neighbourhood knew that one day, probably in the middle of the day, I’d be the world’s greatest dancer, and so it span around me, as I sat, in the big girl’s passenger seat, feeling real sweet, in my midnight, midday,…
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Murdered
I went back to the scene, of the many times she was murdered, canvassing Camden Town, to find her at 18, at 21, at 26. I was too late. Murdered, by the man who told her he knew best, choked to death, by the flimsy fabric, of the dress he insisted she wear, and the…
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Sincerely, Jennifer x 