Two things almost stopped
my mum from having children
a yearning to travel
and socialist politics.
In 1983, despite Thatcher winning
144 seats in Parliament
my mum was in one place –
an NHS hospital ward,
holding her brown new-born daughter
in home–bound arms.
My mums eyes, blue as the atlas -
promised the justice of how family
can see the world together.
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