Thrilled to have my poem ” The Mess of Thrown-off Clothes” published in the superb Issue 11 of Porch Literary Magazine. Thank you to the Editors and congratulations to all contributors.

The Mess of Thrown-off Clothes

The Mess of Thrown-off Clothes

by Strider Marcus Jones

i listen
to your love beads glisten
in the flotsam
of my room-

we make them
from samurai sword folds
at forge and loom
in the mess of thrown off clothes.

so many smoke me kisses
at portal doors,
and mithril wishes
on primitive floors-

take us back again
through heath and fen
to imitate
lost landscape-

cycle
and circle
sky and stone
outside and home-

in love in less
with your heavenliness,
and loneliness
durable under duress.

Strider Marcus Jones is a poet, law graduate and former civil servant from Salford, England with proud Celtic roots in Ireland and Wales. He is the editor and publisher of Lothlorien Poetry Journal. A member of The Poetry Society, and nominated for both the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, his five published books of poetry reveal a maverick, moving between cities, playing his saxophone in smoky rooms.His poetry has been published in numerous publications including: The Huffington Post USA; The Stray Branch Literary Magazine, Crack The Spine Literary Magazine, The Recusant, The Lampeter Review and Dissident Voice.

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