Commissioned Poem for Cymru’n Cofio – Estyn yn Ddistaw- Wales Remembers

Watchkeeper for Gwilym Williams Pixels break a thousand spaces where floating faces rise. Sun clambers over hills to a black cross. That shines your eyes back into it, breathing in villages, towns, cities mourning cemented onto walls. Plumed objects placed in corners looking back at us. _____ Your poems tell me how you loved these lanes: Primroses, brambles, lichen, moss, birches thickening. Walking to school, a prison to a small boy with dirty knees you chewed a pencil until teeth touched lead. Then something flecked its ambition: An inscape mediated the inscribed hymn of fire, hearth, light. Patterns… Read More →