Ewen Glass

Ewen Glass author

‘I GREW THESE FLOWERS’

No you didn’t; you watched them grow and assigned plaudits to
yourself. I’m not going to give you garlands. You might be seven,
son, and you might be proud, but see what I see: a feat of growth,
all life’s colour, my only grace. And beside you, some flowers that
happened.


EWEN GLASS (he/him) is a screenwriter and poet from Northern Ireland who lives with two dogs, a tortoise and a body of self-doubt; his poetry has appeared in the likes of Okay Donkey, Maudlin House, Abridged, HAD, Poetry Scotland and One Art Poetry. Find him on Bluesky/X/IG: @ewenglass.


Read more by Ewen Glass:

Three poems in Bruiser
A poem in HAD
Two poems in SEXTET