Character: Jane
Book: The Thirteenth Orphan
Author: Christine Chaundler
26 writer: Anna Dewis
(Intro)
Jane believes in fairies. She also longs for a mother. When strangers visit her school and decide to adopt her, both passions converge with startling results.
(Sestude)
Jane
No, I am Jasmine
I belong, at last
No longer other
Mother
I breathe union
Greedily inhale your name
Nestle in your plump folds
Scolds
I forgive old hatreds
Relegate the tall stool
Drown black dreams
Sunbeams
I see fairies
Love-in-the-grime survivalists
A fountainhead of unravelling
Travelling
I went far, far away
To come home
Not a number. I am me