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Places where I can be found on social media:
I am on twitter as @janjonesauthor
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Writer of romantic comedy, Regency romance, serials, mysteries, novellas, short stories and poems
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Places where I can be found on social media:
I am on twitter as @janjonesauthor
I am on mastodon as @janjonesauthor@mastodonapp.uk
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red warning by Jan Jones
the walls of the house are warm
the bedroom smells of hot ironed sheets
outside, baked air stirs in a slow waltz
but this is England
my house is made of old, cold stone
the last time I ironed sheets was 1974
grief lies like a blanket
the earth in the garden is shrinking
stones and bulbs stranded on the surface
and I wonder
is this what the end of days is like?
the walls of the house are warm
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Ice Trees by Jan Jones
Faint tracery of ice trees against the sky
like a ghost memory of how life used to be
before all this
before all the all this
Sunlight thaws the fairytale
brings winter-stark reality
another day of doing the next thing
then the next
then the next
then the next
Yet still sometimes when I look up
I see the feathery traces etched on my mind
cobweb-tenacious
wanting to whisper of hope
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Crunching Acornsby Jan Jones
Crunching acorns underfoot
Too early because the year is broken
Conversing with myself
Because my head is a wide country I can go
Humming songs I listened to long ago
When I thought I was broken, but wasn't
Reading old books
From unbroken times
And hoping
Hoping
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