My guest today is Thomas Jones, fine fellow poet at Thomas's Substack, whom I've gotten to know through an online poetry group he runs. He was once publisher of Wings Literary Magazine, his work has appeared in various anthologies and journals, and he has two books out, Geneology X and Voices from the Void. Check out more of his work, here. Young Woman at the Window by Thomas D. Jones She gazes at the shore, smells the fresh island breeze or longs for the mainland. Hard to tell what land she smells and sees. We only see her from behind. Is she going or coming? Will her face launch a thousand ships again or turn our hearts to stone? Perhaps the artist gave no view from the front or side because she is imbued with second sense: the gull's cry, the mermaid's song, the turtle's groan, the still ocean on the canvas of the mind's eye. Only her, the land, the window, and the curtains under house arrest either by choice or by force to protect her from herself and others against the crime of laughing, crying, bleeding, and dying.
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