TALKING

        I would talk with the statue
my relation
                      in the Bay

           renowned and ignoring
                     me
             for the sea

 (welcoming hillsides inland)

        I'd say -
                             'How come
                        you've neglected us so long?
                            Only now stepped
                          into family history?'
 (his pub name
                      not exotic stage one)

                            'And did you ever chat
                               with my Gran?
                            Sample those phrases
                              she carved so carefully ;
                             sculpted, yet spoken.

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