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The Strength by Brendan Fahy

It’s a bright morning in the springtime and myself and Nora are chatting over the breakfast — thick slices of her brown bread and a jar of her raspberry jam. There’s a bit of tea left in the big blue pot under the knitted cosy but we won’t finish it. We never do. It’ll sit there all day under our noses until we clear it away for dinner.

Milena Williamson. Photo by Jessica Manns Photography

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Poems by Milena Williamson

Milena is from Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. She is pursuing a PhD in creative writing at the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University Belfast. She won the 2018 Mairtín Crawford poetry award and the 2020 ‘Streetcake Magazine’ experimental writing poetry prize. Her poetry has been published on RTÉ and in ‘Oxford Poetry’, ‘Blackbox Manifold’, ‘Hold Open the Door’, and ‘Poetry Ireland Review’ among others. Find out more at www.milenawilliamson.com.

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