Sounds of Cors Caron

Victoria Osburn-Jones visited Cors Caron as part of the Oriel Davies Writers group this summer.

Oriel Davies Writers spent a day at Cors Caron immersing themselves in the life of the bog with author and facilitator Emma Beynon. They were inspired by our current creative programme, Sownd - Cymru yn Fenis / Wales in Venice, by Manon Awst and Dylan Huw


~

What will the bog tell me if I yell
into it loudly?
To pack a lunch, wear the right shoes,
and bring a notebook and pen?
That air is supposed to be delicious?
That it takes a long time to make these conditions much has to decay to make an area so visitable and vivacious
It’d tell me to bury my cellphone
and stop writing captions
I’d tell it to shush
But for the rest of time
I’d be unable to stop thinking of
the sentiment of hating a shouting glowing unavoidable box taken everywhere
and rechargeable
A foul thing replacing wonder
Distracting most visitors with camera, calculator, and search engine settings,
Disgustingly it’d take it’s cellphone out of wide unending peat pockets answering my call and say stop yelling it is time
to lie down in the mosses and
become the bog

~

Last summer I could’ve never imagined a whole day walking and writing in a bog…

This summer I grab the opportunity in handfuls and feel so lucky to be writing surrounded by so many delightful people, as part of the Oriel Davies Writers!