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poetry favourites:
Ty Newydd Writing Courses
The Dark Horse
Philip Gross
Mariscat Press
Oversteps Books
Kailpot Press
and in the shop…
collections –
“Cynefin”,
Kailpot Press;
“Trace”,
Oversteps Books
pamphlets –
“Uist Walking Song”,
Westward Books;
“Alphabet Poems”
Mariscat Press
YouTube poetry p f playlist: Mary Robinson reading Sea Pebbles
from collection, “Trace” (Oversteps Books)
Clay
Born of movement on the potter’s wheel
the vessel balances space and light
sings its own resonance
remember …
before the bowl is broken
the pitcher shattered at the well
the dog flattens his ears, the cat bolts,
smithereens of slip-glazed ceramic
flung on the midden
wistful shards, silent in earth’s darkness
but not still, turned up by coulter and ploughshare
flower-strewn fragments, a smudge of gold rim
in my hand I hold traces of life
of bread shared together
a restless longing, a hiraeth for home.
Mary Robinson
in collection Cynefin, 2024, Kailpot Press,
ISBN 978-0-9556860-8-5
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