Ink-drop ABC's

From the Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen (a novel)

An angel

A Beggar

A candle

Despair

Exhaustion

Fulfillment

Gladiator

Hunger’s prayer

Invitation to

Joy, a

Kite set free

Love

Madness, a

Noose

Opulent

Poetry

Quiet

Rabble-rouser

Servant and slave

Tender Tormentor

Unrelenting

Wave

Yearning and 

Zeal

Snared on the fringe

of Something surreal
Bittersweet tinge

Little ink-drop 

from a bottomless well

Caught on the tip 

of what is left to tell

© Janet Martin