Delighted to have my poem When You Came In published in Masticadores India. Thankye to brilliant editor/poet Nolcha Fox. Most appreciated.

“WHEN YOU CAME IN” by Strider Marcus Jones

When You Came Inthe air

Tore into shreds

around our heads

in the room

when you came in.

Bare

words

flew out of your chair

like accusing,

Hysterical birds

and pecked at my plume

of silence

spitting vile violence.

I wore the harness

of your darkness

and pulled its load

of false truth

behind my youth-

you told me i was old

and i lost a tooth.

in the scene, that cut the cable,

while we both sat at the table

in the garden-

love's sour jasmine

drooped,

poisoned in its ruined roots,

then you wept to me

and went to him

tears

trailing,

years

jading,

fading

beauty

again.

that was there.

that was then.

a solar flare

of raven hair

around its star,

last light more magnificent than most,

close but far.


Poet from England. Editor and publisher of Lothlorien Poetry Journal. A Poetry Society member, his five published poetry books reveal a maverick, roaming cities, tooting his sax.

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