she curls a stray strand round her ear, chin dips, eyes rise with a glint

he smiles a chink, toes tapping in time inside leather slides

steam rises from shared patatas

young love spicing up over Spanish tapas

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Anne Casey is an Irish-Australian writer/literary editor with poems published internationally in newspapers, magazines, journals and books. Her writing and poetry rank in ‘The Irish Times’ newspaper’s Most-Read. In 2017, Salmon Poetry published Anne’s poetry collection, ‘where the lost things go’. She has won the Glen Phillips Novice Writer Award, has been commended in the Bangor Forty Words Competition and has been shortlisted for the Cúirt International Poetry Prize, Eyewear Books Poetry Prize and Bedford International Writing Competition, among others.  Connect with her on online and on Twitter: @1annecasey