9 August 2021
The Restaurant by Byron Beynon
Lingering on this tropical esplanade
I watch at low tide
the restaurant of mud
that softly feeds the waterbirds.
The second day of a Queensland winter
in a humid, rich June
as the carriage of the pelican
rests, shares the fizzy ground
with the straw-necked ibis
plodding his stilts
through the devouring
smell of the sea.
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Byron Beynon's work has appeared in several publications including Agenda, The London Magazine, Cyphers, The Independent, Quadrant and Poetry Wales. His selected poems appeared in 2018 (Bilingual: English/Romanian - published by Bibliotecha Universalis/Collectiile/ Revistei ‘Orizont Literar Contemporan’, translations by Dr Monica Manolachi, University of Bucharest).
Readers with a digital subscription, or institutional access, can read Byron Beynon’s ‘A Musician’s Ear’ in Wasafiri 105.
Image courtesy Alex Wigan via Unsplash
