Byron Beynon
Goleudy Rhydwen*
*Welsh for the Whiteford Lighthouse, off the Gower Coast
Out there, where the air screams,
darkness is measured in fathoms;
in the complex sea, sensing
the swift running of the incoming
currents, knowing where the padlocked
rooms of the drowned can be found,
the upright body of cast-iron, a solid marker,
motionless like a chess piece against
the common sky, in solitude
it listens for lost voices
as foam flutes high from
the wet wildness beneath
the water's probing fingers,
where frozen echoes remain concealed.
darkness is measured in fathoms;
in the complex sea, sensing
the swift running of the incoming
currents, knowing where the padlocked
rooms of the drowned can be found,
the upright body of cast-iron, a solid marker,
motionless like a chess piece against
the common sky, in solitude
it listens for lost voices
as foam flutes high from
the wet wildness beneath
the water's probing fingers,
where frozen echoes remain concealed.
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