Lovespoon/Llwy garu My sculptor sweetheart carved me a lovespoon,
Looped fishing reel round the neck, hung it on the spare room wall. ‘Getting the handle smooth was the hardest’.
The wood curled like Treaddur Bay on a friend’s wedding morning, Even the groom longed to be in the water,
Thinking of the wetsuit in his garage as he stood to make a speech. I traced the chips and cuts of the bowl,
Sounding the lighthouse bell near Puffin Island, Wind in the grasses at Whistling Sands.
Now the spoon sits on my mantel in Birmingham, I haven’t seen my past cariad for eighteen years. I open a present sent through the post,
Slide open the box to a miniature landscape:
Pembrokeshire coast. I dip my finger in the sea.
Professor Ceri Morgan works on literary geographies, place-writing, geopoetics (site-responsive creative practices), walking studies, and geohumanities. A longstanding member of the Montreal research group, la Traversée, Ceri has worked increasingly on geopoetics as a participatory practice since 2014, leading workshops or ‘happenings’ on a variety of themes, including mining, food, persistent pain, and deindustrialisation. In April 2020, she set up an online writing group, Microclimates, in response to social and spatial restrictions prompted by the Covid-19 pandemic. Ceri has published some fiction, creative nonfiction, and prose-poetry. Her prose-poem, ‘Avenue Bernard’ was broadcast on RTE Radio 1 extra and RTE Radio 1 in Spring and Summer 2020.
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