The round-shouldered cobblestones nudge
at my sandalled feet. They are smooth
as the pebbles that sang on an Anglesey beach,
as the present-from-Beaumaris paperweight
whose faded dragon still parades
across my desk. They are warm
as cottage loaves fresh from Powell’s,
or bakestones from the griddle. The gulls
shriek with the same harsh voice, but the river
is an unfamiliar olive green and runs
beside a motorway that leads me
away from you.
(Not a new poem, but appropriate for March 1st, the feast day of Dewi Sant.)
don't confuse the narrator 
So glad I got up early this morning (Pacific Coast Time here) and started reading poems…otherwise I would have missed this poem which is just lovely…Thanks!
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Thank you!
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Lovely composition. Passed this one on to a members of a Powell family that I am acquainted with here in Ontario. :)
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Thank you!
The Powells must be sons of Hywel, like the Prices are sons of Rhys and the Bowens are sons of Owen. (I think.)
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