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Tuesday 23 May 2017

GILLIAN CLARKE
Selected Poems
In Pisgah Graveyard

Dylan tells me this is a church-garden.
Indeed, these bones, ground seed-small, seem neither
Statc nor dead. The flowers that flourish
Here suggest fertility, the seed-heads
Of late summer brave, casting away
Their foliage, the naked sky. Er côf
On every stone, I count the time each
One was allowed, arrange their families,
Imagined, in the old farms and places
That watch still from the mountains.

The warmth tumbles here like a giant sun
Flower dying and full of glossy seed.
This roughest stone of all, a sand-stone pod
Bursting with words, is Dewi Emrys's grave.
And all around the living corn concedes
fecundity to him. They're proud of him
Here, where full barns count as much as poetry.
He who, they say, knew women as well as words,
Lies in the blond fields blowing to seed
With the threshing machine and the chapel clock.

What do I look for here, with a child's
Hot hand in mine, his hair like ragged robin?
Perhaps the stone words of my first tongue
On a poet's grave that tidies his wild life,
For the savage roar of the trapped sun
Seeding the earth against the stop of winter
When everything that lives will play dead lions,
And the flaming mane of the surrounding wheat
Drops down, lies still until, inside the heart,
The words unfreeze and the poems come again.

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