Blizzard Warning

Jane Ayres

Icicles on frosted glass.

An empty bed.

Outside, heartsick foxes

sing love duets.

Winter is stealthy

& you have already left.

Snow falls.

I melt again.

UK based neurodivergent writer Jane Ayres completed a Creative Writing MA at the University of Kent in 2019 aged 57. Her work is in Lighthouse, Streetcake, The North, Acropolis Journal, Selcouth Station, Kissing Dynamite, (mac)ro(mic), ubu, Crow of Minerva, Beir Bua Journal, Ample Remains, Sledgehammer and The Forge.

Jane tweets at workingwords50