‘A’
November 26, 2019A leads me to adwnio
to double stitch
next adanerch
a second greeting
adaren is a female bird
adeilo is to build
perhaps to disguise anew
(adnaw) is to swim back
through ground
that’s fallow (adwydd)
the intimacy between generations
becomes as it is here
in the water an object
everyone sees
like a light coming out
of a woman’s mouth
in Welsh most of the A’s
seem to repeat or reverse
like second reckonings
to burn again the polishing
of a second seeing
ael is a brow.
aes a flat body
for comparable purposes
the two parts communicate
like coarse salt on snow
fish hanging out to dry for instance
aethawl is pungent, poignant
the stave is the hull, opening
that’s Grandma Ruth again
sometimes I see her brow in mine!
aeldrwm is stern, frowning
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