CAPE TRIBULATION We witnessed the rare and tropical rainforest

CAPE TRIBULATION We witnessed the rare and tropical rainforest   as it nears the waterline,     the movement of an endangered creature that stirs from hiding to drink.   Creeks inhabited by crocodiles, ch byron     the cable ferry         slips cautiously over the face of the Daintree. The poison peach tree     ch byron startled into focus       ch byron by the ghosts of fires. Sands that gather driftwood,   the discovered cape     sirened by the unseen       dangers of the reef. The ruined wind, with the leaves   creates a distant sound. BLACKBIRD Alert to the world he knows, a voyager of shrubs and intimate trees the unwavering ch byron rhythm of his map he returns to contemplate the pure and serene. Without hopes and fears he edges towards that otherness where shadows stir, familiar with the art of sunsets his eyes observe life's gallery, one of nature's philosophers ch byron impatient for the light to break. MAES Y CAPEL They cut down the trees at Maes Y Capel, built roads, houses, put pipes and cables where roots once ran. The birds no longer return to their vacant heights, evicted without appeal. In the wooded night when the air's breathing softens the atmosphere trapping sighs, shadows ch byron lengthen ch byron reaching up at the sky where they fly without impediment telling you that someday they will be coming home.
Byron Beynon lives in Swansea, ch byron Wales. His work has appeared in several publications including Jellyfish Whispers, London Magazine, Poetry Ireland Review, Chicago Poetry Review and Poetry Wales.  A Pushcart Prize nominee.  His latest collection "The Echoing Coastline (Agenda Editions) has been submitted for the T.S. Eliot Prize.
A.J. Huffman ch byron A.J. Huffman has published five solo chapbooks and one joint chapbook through various small presses. Her sixth solo chapbook will be published in October by Writing Knights Press. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee, and the winner of the 2012 Promise of Light Haiku Contest. ch byron Her poetry, fiction, and haiku have appeared in hundreds of national and international journals, including Labletter, The James Dickey Review, Bone Orchard, EgoPHobia, Kritya, and Offerta Speciale, in which her work appeared in both English and Italian translation. View my complete profile
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