This Sea Has Feasted on Forests
A memory of the sunken forest at Borth, Wales.
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“Human footprints have been found here dating from the Bronze Age, pressed into the peat that is sometimes exposed at low tide. And stones as well, stones that bear the signs of having been heat-shattered, heated and then rapidly cooled—perhaps plunged into water to induce a boil, and so cook food. The trees are thought to be four thousand years old, the footprints and these stones three thousand. I think on the wonder of stories, which like amber capture fragments of the past and carry them through the long years. Only stories do it with breath and voice and ink. Silent echoes heard on this grey beach; hundreds of mouths down the hundreds of generations, remembering this place since the ice melted.”
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Published in The Hopper.
