Delilah Dennett
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Delilah Dennett is an aspiring writer. Born in Beijing and raised in London to a Mongolian mother and an English father, Dennett uses her nomadic rootlessness to encourage words to seep out from her bark of soul like sap. Much like her literature degree, she is currently a work in progress and she is in her final year of studying Asian American literature and Native American literature at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University. Dennett has previously been published in Rigorous Magazine, Yukkuri magazine, Canvas Magazine, as well as a Young Writer's Journal based in the UK. She has upcoming poems due to be published in The Dial, Sandstorm and The Cambridge Student. She has also won the Arrol Adam's Poetry Prize for her poem 'Morecambe Shores'. You can follow her on Instagram at @delilahdennett.
Sky Swimming
Blushing like a deep pink rose,
The sky was ridged with cloudy pebbles,
A beach the cranes skimmed across
Where dreams almost meld into reality
Buzzing between my ears.
Antique sundial layering my tepid heart
Whilst the golden dust of the sun
Simmered in flesh, craving intimacy
In the silk of sky, crafted by the skin of stars.
I jump,
Dive into the sky merging
With the lapsing ocean,
Where reality is an uncertain creature
Hiding amongst the naked pebbles,
And I swim out into the vast sea
Of sky,
Wandering to the place
That no one calls home,
Where the mad go
And don’t return.
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