Frances Wilde
Frances Wilde is a 24-year-old writer from Nottingham, UK, living in Dublin, having previously lived in Galway. She has a BA in English Literature and an MA in Film Studies – Theory and Practice. Her poetry was recently read at the Irish Writers Centre WomenXBorders event and has appeared in Flash Literary Journal, Lancaster.
Swim to Inis Leacan
I see myself
in the Gurteen Bay
shallow cove,
reflected back
a wobbly silver-blue.
Sombre clouds shrouding
a clear silhouette,
ocean washing in,
to tell me (in coercive tones)
who I am.
Memories rising
from the water
to greet me.
Who were we,
swimming for miles,
at slack water?
Arctic terns,
screeching cheerily above,
exude the end of a season.
Tide turns.
© 2020 Frances Wilde