Born in Hull, Tracey Hope is an English teacher.
She completed an MA in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Tracey’s poems have featured in Orbis, Erbacce, Wildfire Words and The Lake.
She won a reader award in Orbis and was shortlisted for the annual Erbacce Prize.
You move away into the sea
and watch black shapes that tumble and roll with the waves.
‘Dolphins.’
I follow your gaze.
Your skin silvers.
You dive. Flip a fin.
I wait as I always wait.
Tide turns as it always turns.
I should bind your feet in broidered straps
plait abalone in your hair
weave a robe of sea silk
knotted too tight to unwind.
Cerasus Poetry 