Bio
S.C. Flynn was born in a small town in Australia of Irish origin and now lives in Dublin. His poetry has been published in many magazines, and in March 2023 leading US magazine Rattle included him as one of seventeen contemporary Irish poets in a special edition. In May 2023 he was long-listed for the Erbacce Prize out of 13,000 entries.
S.C. Flynn
Art Imitating Life Imitating Art
We snatched our moments together
like pages torn from an album,
laughing at each other behind frowning masks
and wondering who's watching who in the mirror.
You spoke truth and I yelled nonsense
and then we swapped around;
you answered the questions you wanted to hear
and I asked the ones that you didn't;
the wings of a bright noisy bird
flying in ever-decreasing circles.