History oozing into pores
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.
Byron Beynon lives in Swansea, Wales. His work has appeared in several publications including London Magazine, Poetry Ireland Review, San Pedro River Review, Muddy River Poetry Review, Yellow Nib and the human rights anthology In Protest (University of London and Keats House Poets). Collections include Human Shores (Lapwing Publications) and The Echoing Coastline (Agenda Editions).
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