This Friday’s poem, Poetry in Parenting by Karen Gray comes from swings + roundabouts Poems on Parenthood edited by Emma Neale, published by Godwit.
Poetry in Parenting
There is poetry in parenting if you listen for it.
A little face pressed against the window as the southerly hits:
‘Mummy, outside it has just burst into tears,
and the cabbage tree’s hair is in its eyes’
Poetry. And wisdom:
‘I know how the mice got in the roof, Dad – they jumped on the trampoline.’
Visions of mice, like miniature Masai, bouncing.
- Karen Gray –
