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Mim Darlington

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My Daughter’s Kite

is patterned like a monarch butterfly —
ochre, orange, black. She thinks its wings
are as high as the slipstream; it rises and dips
with the wind’s buffets, wefts its way higher
till she lets herself lift with it; my daughter
and her kite, light as swifts

hair wild streamers
she lifts higher still, paints the sky’s blue
with lilac and pink, wears the wind
against her skin, billows in the lift
and push, lift and push; she drifts
cold teeth gleaming; moves
with the pulse and pull
of the great migrations.

Mim Darlington lives near Dartmoor in Devon where she is a member of the Moor Poets collective. She taught English for many years before becoming a freelance writer. She has had many poems published in magazines and anthologies across the UK and Ireland, appears regularly at festivals, and often works collaboratively with other artists. Her first poetry collection, Windfall, is published by Oversteps Books.

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