Poetry & Prose
NEWS!
My poem, See Through, has been selected by the Ekphrastic Review
for their May 22, 2026 issue.
Inspired by this photo,
All Hallows House by Alison Butler.
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This Beauty
Flakes falling.
Gently, comfortingly, insistently,
effortlessly layering over hurt and history.
Now I see,
This is how it transforms:
Unseen, undisturbed.
What settles breaks apart and reconstitutes.
Leaf dances with mud to alchemize into mulch,
the fertile ground of new growth, new life.
My life.
Endings, beginnings, memories all entangle,
immune to neat lines drawn with a stick in this crystalized water.
Birthing, losing, living,
loving,
- all messy.
Anyone who thinks otherwise is fooling themselves.
I’m talking to you.
READ HERE:
Janaea Rose Lyn takes us on a poetic journey
from grief to cognition to embodiment
and, finally, to translucence.
Please check out and comment on my writing,
as well as the other fascinating pieces
in this interdisciplinary journal!
BOXES
BOXES was published in the Autumn 2025 edition of
Hydration Literary Magazine by Poptab Press
I have a carefully curated collection of enclosures
containing the artifacts of a life
still being lived.
polished, paper, stone-encrusted
antique, ceramic, engraved
fabric, metal, alabaster
Patiently awaiting the time I reveal moments that can be re-membered,
when I scavenger hunt for signs of myself.
painted, inlaid, cigar
chinoiserie, cameo, tarnished silver
odd shapes, distressed wood, secret enigma
Now I am what is contained.
protected, private, solitary
flesh, blood, bone
Waiting patiently to be discovered in this box of my quarters,
filled with boxes of rooms, occupied by beautiful boxes.
I sought something, anything, to orient me to this new inside/out.
An oblong etched glass with ornate silver top revealed a challenge in thirteen words:
We don’t know who we are until we see what we can do.
