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.
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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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