The Silence
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Gillian Clarke
Born in Cardiff, Gillian Clarke, is a poet and translator (from Welsh). She edited the Anglo-Welsh Review from 1975 to 1984, and ran poetry workshops in primary and secondary schools and for M.Phil. students at the University Of Glamorgan. She is president of Ty Newydd, the writers' centre in North Wales which she co-founded in 1990. She was the National Poet of Wales from 2008 to 2016. Her poetry is studied by GCSE students throughout Britain. She has given poetry readings in Europe and the United States, and her work has been translated into ten languages. She has a daughter and two sons, and lives with her architect husband on an eighteen-acre smallholding in Ceredigion, Wales, where they have planted 4,300 trees and care for the land according to conservation practice.
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The Silence - Gillian Clarke
Blood Moon
691 and 21 January 2019
‘A’r lleuat a ymchawlawd yn waedawl lliw’
‘And the moon turned to the colour of blood’
Brut y Tywysogion
Black sky of stars and a risen moon
in the sleeping arms of the beech.
We set the alarm for four, sleep curled
against the ice-cold night as moon and world
work their magnetism, oceans drawn
and let go by the luminous old stone.
Tonight we wake to watch our shadow
bite the edge, spread, darkening,
till the moon is blood, light lost
like all we touch, the poles, the oceans,
the wounded wilderness, the apple picked in Eden
bleeding from the bite of our first sin.
The Year of the Dead
January 2020
We wake with the sun
follow its golden hours,
watch each day’s dissolve
into dusk, nightfall, sleep.
The days have no names.
The day they count the dead,
the day they closed the doors,
turned off the lights.
We’re still here in the silence,
hearing tree-talk,
the wind’s secrets,
the company of birds.
The Hours
‘And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: but the end is not yet. There shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows.’
St Benedict’s Hours of the Day, Sixth Century
matins
The early hours, a week before full moon,
I lie awake, remember the young fox
calling as it crossed the lawn last night;
how it came close to the