BOBBIE SPARROW Bobbie Sparrow lives in Co. Galway, she has been published in many journals and anthologies including Abridged, Southword, Skylight 47, Crannog and The Honest Ulsterman. She has been placed in various well-known competitions and was voted best published poet 2018/19 by Dodging the rain. Bobbie has been featured reader at many events. Her debut collection is due for publication Spring 2024.with Yaffle Press. Bobbie loves swimming in cold lakes and staring at trees in winter.
A study of surrender A milkweed butterfly whispers through my dream, orange wings
tissue-thin courting the wind, her life fading in the rhythmic dips
she makes, barely grazes the stone wall that curves down to the grey sea. I see a crease in her silk, the sketch of death, I long (for longing is my twin) to pair my delicate heart
with such gracious strength. Allow the day to carry me
through all its grim and glory, feel the fading of my feathers
as merely the passing of time.
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