Poet Louisa Adjoa Parker has just published a collection of poetry called 'Salt-sweat and Tears', which is available from Cinnamon Press - www.cinnamonpress.com

Forest Child

That night we made you
in the forest,
lying in the orange two-man tent
in the middle of tall trees
dark like patterned cloth.

I woke next morning
listening to woodpigeons
rolling the sounds of summer
like toffees in their throats.
(The first time I ever really heard
the rhythm of their coos.)

I dreamed you into being –
a child-shaped star falling
through the forest sky, lighting it with hope
like a Catherine wheel;
finding me, finding your home in me.

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