(for Alun Gwynedd Jones) The poet sees stars full of language and paints them on the darkness of old ragged paper and draws trees in Chinese script, restricting nature within the frame of a poem. She holds a silent conversation…
(for Philip Henry Jones) How can one justify writing a lyrical poem after Auschwitz? After rehearsing the rituals of the measures, after beating her wings against the bars of her cage, kneeling and begging for understanding, then gaining confidence to…
(for Philip Henry Jones) From low land overflowing with treasures from plundered countries, from Jesus College which did not disown him, after the feasts of male intellectuals, with fettered feat and patterned plumage suggestive of the fine art of wax…
Roman glass was shattered by an explosion of modernism into facets which were glued together, the outline bearing the trace of hands, a vessel containing memories which croak audibly, the recreation transparent, boasting of the scars – it stands still…
A stone was scratched and whittled to leave a trace, the darkness of the cuts illuminating the urge to commemorate, a treasure wrapped by the wind and kept for centuries, subject of a rite of wetting with rain, the message…
(for Philip Henry Jones) A tree sucked from the ultra-dark earth nourishment and turned it into sap the colour of burning, which crystallized translucent around air from antiquity; Art Nouveau silver twigs hold it, frame of the living light of…
Turquoise claws of a wave turning but the air escaping from its grasp, trying to rise to the surface but paralysed because the water is frozen. ‘Dinggedicht: Pwysau papur’© copyright text and translation Mary Burdett-Jones 2022
(for Olwen Jenkins) The old town stands on the crest of a hill – a castle which was breached, streets echoing from lack of inhabitants, and a grey-stone church which has not entirely succeeded in casting off its inner yellowish…
(for Christian Sloan) It is not an eagle whose wings are gold from sun seen against the white of the sky; he treads the air without the confidence of a cartoon hero, falls like a soul into hell, his burnt…
It is intended to add the Welsh text of the first chapter of a short novel by Mary Burdett-Jones by the end of 2024.