Winner: Freya Buckley,

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