David C. Byrne
Manchester, UK

I am David C. Byrne and I live in Manchester, UK. I have been writing poetry for many years and completed an MA in Creative Writing whose teachers included Carol Ann Duffy & Simon Armitage and the wonderful life-force Linda Chase. I have had several poems published and can also be seen here at the link.

https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/projects/writersgallery/content/David_Byrne.htm

I also won the Unpublished Adult Poetry Award for the Brit Writers.

Written 1^st April

The woman in the window

waves back as I jog past in gasps with thumbs up as I pause

and mouth are you alright? through the terraced glass;

a life in cardigans and creases as she laughs yes, are you?

Secretly I call her mum, stumble around my insides for love:

life benignly sits in its wisdom knowing it will run its rivers

as I hope she calls me son.