Llansteffan and The Worm in June

Llansteffan and The Worm in June

Llansteffan pulling west

into the summer haze,

backed against the castle,

upon the Towy sands.

There, see the ‘Worm’ drawn

closer than the eye has seen

most days, for it is far away

than seems this day drawn 

in the heat of June

in the morning.

And a Worm it is!

in profile a more gentle dragon

than it is in the wild winter. When

to set foot is to drive forward 

into the Atlantic Ocean. To 

forge rock on the anvil of the rip

waters barnacled in blood.

But here a photographer’s eye

has pulled imagination, and the day,

and his machine, to lay it before us

as it is rarely seen, though much rumoured. 

Oscillating between Llansteffan and Gower 
folk are aware of the wonder, and the grace 
of a summer such as this day in June.

Here - gaze upon it now,

lock it into your hearts;

for summers are as short as the winters are long,

and your memory of now and again seems

as temporal as the haze across this sound.