Ginny Darke
Cloudgazing
Today, the sky is full of soft inventions —
we lie back and watch them break down.
You think one looks like a man
giving up mid-sentence.
I’m reminded that everything is almost something.
One was briefly a horse,
then a horse with its head missing,
then not a horse at all.
Ginny Darke is a Welsh poet based in Bristol, England. She has been shortlisted for the Poetry Wales Award (2025), the Creative Futures award (2019 and 2020) and was a Foyle Young Poet (2018). Her poetry has been published with Poetry Northern Ireland, Anthropocene, The Remnant Archive, The AI Literary Review and Ink, Sweat and Tears