invigorates the past;
there's the castle for instance,
high on a humpbacked hill
reaching out from Llansteffan's
sand-ferrying shore.
The eternal language of seabirds
regional accents
in the warm rain
as they dive and soar,
sudden shifts in scale and tempo
recording the deep tales
from the journeying sea.
A landscape navigating
through the syllabus of days
that have vanished
onto the skin of time.
The air pure with thoughts,
clear with water-music
occupies this space
entering the cartographer's
coast of memory.
there's the castle for instance,
high on a humpbacked hill
reaching out from Llansteffan's
sand-ferrying shore.
The eternal language of seabirds
regional accents
in the warm rain
as they dive and soar,
sudden shifts in scale and tempo
recording the deep tales
from the journeying sea.
A landscape navigating
through the syllabus of days
that have vanished
onto the skin of time.
The air pure with thoughts,
clear with water-music
occupies this space
entering the cartographer's
coast of memory.
Byron Beynon lives in Wales. He is the author of 11 collections of poetry including The Sundial (Flutter Press), Cuffs (Rack Press) and The Echoing Coastline (Agenda Editions). A former co-editor of Roundyhouse Poetry Magazine.
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