Bedd Taliesin 

Not grave enough
this cist for one so versed in court,
but I would take it

without the need to visit again,
holding still its random pillars
in my mind’s eye, its graze

rough capstone
table enough for glass or flask
and someone to say, I was here too.

 

Published in PN Review, Volume 48, No.6, 2022

Bedd Taliesin looks out from the Cambrian Mountains to the Dyfi estuary and is held in folklore to be the grave of the 6th Century Poet, Taliesin.

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