MIRROR

poetry
Written By Valentine Jones

When I was younger

the water of the world welled up through the ground

and flooded the fields with silver.

Driving to my granny's house after school

old car chug-chugging through seas of fields

and I knew the sky had fallen

huge silver splinters shattered on the green

jagged edges cutting the trees.

Valentine Jones

Valentine Jones is a 17-year-old writer from Limerick. Valentine has been published in Paper Lanterns, Ink, Sweat, and Tears, the Poetry Ireland Review, the Irish Times Youth Supplement 2024, and is a recipient of the 2024 Edna O'Brien Young Writers Award. Valentine has a cat called Cookie.

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