María Castro Domínguez

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain

Maria Castro Dominguez is the author of 'A Face in The Crowd' her 2016 Erbacce–press prize winning collection. 

Winner of the third prize in Brittle Star´s Poetry Competition 2018. Finalist in the 2019 Stephen A DiBiase Poetry contest NY. 

Her poems have appeared in Orbis, Obsessed With Pipework, Sarvasti, Apogee, Popshot, EmptyMirror and London Grip.

Poem completed on the 1st of May 2020

An Utterance

There’s a solitary orange balloon nudging

along the street, looking for a child to play with.

Shop windows are mirrors for clouds and sky

and the new silence is filled with a band of birds.

At home children think they are on holidays forever:

splashing milk with straws, playing I spy with my little eye

catching flies in a net, tossing socks into a pan 

of suds and stirring up a turbulence in the kitchen sink.

Some parents read old stories tasting aged wine and others

have become teachers learning new science and maths.

School kids have discovered they have a mother

and father and that love isn’t just an utterance.