A Quiet Root

We comb through hundreds of literary magazines to bring you one stellar poem or flash fiction piece every weekday.

“Instinct” by Edel Burke

When my mother told me
she had taken the stairs,
stared out from the bedroom window,
thought about throwing,
when one of us as a baby cried
for a whole year –

Read it in Banshee

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