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A Song of Soft Syllables

A Song of Soft Syllables

written by: Jenny Thomas

@authorjcthomas

 

A song of soft syllables echoes in your oval room.
A red cave where your tongue
whisks breath and
whips walls of flesh.
Your voice,
rippling over vowels like rocks
on the riverbed,
holding speech together.
Falling over the edge,
your lips quiver,
your voice falling
like a waterfall.

Jenny Thomas

Jenny Thomas

Jenny's debut novel, Awakening Worlds, is an eco-fantasy novel. She graduated with a BA (Hons) in English Literature from the University of the West of England in 2011. She spent two semesters abroad at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, USA. This is where she began writing Awakening Worlds. She recently graduated with an MA in Comparative Literatures and Cultures from the University of Bristol. In her early twenties, she volunteered at a school for disadvantaged Burmese youth. There, she led creative writing and drama workshops. She also worked as a teaching assistant in an Aboriginal Community School in the Kimberley desert, Western Australia. She teaches English online by day and writes fiction and poetry by night. She is currently working on a novella to be released in 2021.
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