In The Quarry, and: The Frame of Paradise, and: Soul, You Made Me, and: The Killing of Dyfnwal Brych, and: Song

Abstract: “In the Quarry” is an ekphrastic poem after the painter Paul Klee. The poem examines language’s intersections with time as a way of representing the motions of the world and the gestures of acknowledging someone else. “Frame of Paradise” is an ekphrastic poem after the painter Eilish Gormley. The poem constructs word geometries that contrast or harmonize with its various images. “Soul, You Made Me” is an anonymous poem collected in the Middle Welsh text The Black Book of Carmarthen in which an unnamed narrator chastises his soul. “The Killing of Dyfnwal Brych” is an anonymous fragment detailing the death of a king. The figures who occur in the poem also occur in the ancient Welsh epic, Y Gododdin. “Song” is a song/poem attributed to St. Cadoc that praises song and resiliency.