
Winner: Freya Buckley, ‘Windows’
Freya Buckley’s poem ‘Windows’ is the recipient of a 2020 Newcastle Poetry Competition Young People’s Prize.
Windows
The reflections in windows,
are parallel universes
and they are filled with
the same people
but
underwater.
And in this universe,
are their dreams the same?
They flitter and flutter
behind the glass,
somehow
brighter.
I watch them,
blurred by the streetlights.
Small like dolls
a camera obscura vision
detached
holograms.
Freya Buckley, 17