B.W. Beynon
Cefn Golau
Here the winter wind acts like a needle
against the wide skin of heathland,
a severe association with Welsh and English epitaphs
engraved during a malignant year;
networks of abandoned human bone and nerve
hidden within a shrouded moor,
shadows which turned away
from a marked silence
chilled as the cold air
surrounded the silhouettes of stone.
They remain forgotten,
in small, transient spaces,
a private darkness
indifferent to the terrain of constellations,
their untenable lives over, the quiet,
colourless dead, oblivious and equal,
while the livid sweep of snow continued falling,
echoing slowly their descent.
(CFEN GOLAU is a remote area of moorland near the town of Tredegar, where the graves of cholera victims who died during the epidemic of 1849 can be found.)
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