Courtesy Orchis

**Journey Through The Mirror** *for Courtesy Orchis* From somewhere in the void of creation evolving from crystals in insular cells a tappestry of reflections decodes your soul shatter fragility - realise your entity and free from every surface solution, you'll find your creativity You're the child in this rose of glass, its' iris clouded with false divinity beyond your muse, the futile dream decays shatter fragility - realise your entity and free from every surface - solution, you'll find your creativity follow the river, the end is never clear **David Jones, 2001** Courtesy Orchis wrote poetry and short stories and created art as part of the, largely anonymous, collective 'Nine Hearts Publishing', between 1991 and 1999. Collections of various works, 'found art' and previously lost works continued until 2007. Chapbooks were donated to libraries, women's refuges, psychiatric hospitals, prisons and they were hand distributed to the homeless; free. Many of the readers later became contributors to the collective. The works covered subjects such as teen angst, grunge, punk, love of nature, religion, suicide, depression, boredom, the lost generation, cancer, death of loved ones and love. Courtesy Orchis cited her personal inspiration as Nancy Spungen, the Sex Pistols, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Marilyn Monroe, Juliette Lewis, Babes in Toyland, Rik Mayall, Douglas Adams, Jimi Hendrix, Bonnie & Clyde, Jack the Ripper, anything Victorian, Flappers, Hippies, Punks, Buddha, Freud, Wit

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