Jan Napier
MELANCHOLIA*
She buttons up wraps herself around Tanqueray
hunches deep into Sexton Berryman
thinks of stones and water the falling dream
lapidary dissolution.
Quotes ambergris and apricots for melancholia.
Confesses that no one understands the agony
of prey crushes forgiveness pins her own bones
half hitches thought to verticality swans it.
Tastes the spreadability of red.
Jan Napier is Western Australian poet and short story writer whose work won the 2014 Creatix
prize for poetry. Her writing has been published in journals and anthologies within Australia and beyond. She
was the in house reviewer Antipodean SF between 2009, and 2012. In 2011, Jan broke both of her wrists,
resulting in permanent disability.
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