after Anastasiia Kerdina
Evacuation apartment
shattered mothers shout
windows mocked in dust
a little girl takes her first finger
draws ballerinas on forlorn glass
makes them dance on light
Roisín Browne’s work has appeared in Black Nore Review, Poetry NI, Live Encounters, The Stony Thursday Book, Ragaire Literary Magazine and Mnemotope. She was commended in the Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Prize 2018, shortlisted in the 2019 Bangor Literary festival and highly commended in the Seán Dunne Inaugural Poetry Award 2024.