Leontia Flynn’s fourth collection, The Radio, came out in 2017. She lives in Belfast.
Dense clouds of starlings ripple on our skylines.Wildebeest thunder collectively over the plain.Fireflies blink. Bamboo-forests blossom at once.Round the innocent cell, bacteria follow the quorum. And all of the people say yeah no hey wait...
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