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“The Door” by Strider Marcus Jones

Posted by Meelosmomon14 February, 2025

Door Grotto, William Marlow by The Metropolitan Museum of Art is licensed under CC-CC0 1.0
The Door

the door
between skyfloor
topbottom
 
is rankrotten
 
portalbliss
or abjectabyss.
 
it contains conversations
confrontations,
hiding loves two-ings
in lost ruins-
 
shuts us inside ourself
with or without someone else.
 
we,
the un-free,
disenfranchised poor
have no bowl of more-
only pain
on the same plain
as before,
homeless
or in shapeless boxes,
worked out, hunted, like urban foxes-
outlaws on common lands
stolen from empty hands.
 
files on us found
from gathering sound
where mutations abound
put troops on the ground.

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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, his five published books of  poetry reveal a maverick, moving between cities, playing his saxophone in smoky rooms. His poetry has been published in over 200 publications worldwide including: Dreich Magazine; dyst Literary Journal; Impspired Magazine; Melbourne Culture Corner; Literary Yard Journal; The Galway Review; Cajun Mutt Press; Rye Whiskey Review; The Huffington Post USA; The Stray Branch Literary Magazine; Crack The Spine Literary Magazine; and Dissident Voice.