THE ATMOSPHERE CLEARS

Contributor: Byron Beynon

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The sound of doors
shutting inside
anonymous rooms
during the quiet
hours when there is still
light rusting
in a remote sky;
the atmosphere clears
like a table
after a meal,
the long distance of yesterday
creeps in
faded like a memory
caught in a yellow beam,
untouchable like a silent
photograph developed
in the mind,
retention breathing
inside a native ground
patient as discovery.


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Byron Beynon lives in Swansea, Wales. His most recent collection is The Echoing Coastline (Agenda Editions).