Selwyn’s poem is called The Serpent Ring.
Talking about it, he says; “For 12 years, the Somewhere Else Writing Group has provided the support and inspiration I needed to finish my novel, Going Up Camborne Hill. The book follows Cornish emigrants who carried their mining expertise, engineering skills, and rich cultural traditions across the globe—a journey reflected in this poem extracted from it.”
You can read this poem on the Online Magazine at cirenscene.com, and catch up on heaps of other sources of amusement at Somewhere-Else-Writers.org
Going Up Camborne Hill can be found by searching for Selwyn’s or the Group’s name on the online Ciren Scene Magazine, cirenscene.com/local-news/ and you can buy a copy of the novel itself by following this link.
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08PQ8BXHX
The Serpent Ring
From Minuet to Jig.
Conceived in the union of separate parts,
from affiliated passion, or single-minded rage,
came the firstborn babe, mewing and a spewing,
to commence its entropic dance, from a minuet to jig.
It trying to be different, yet condemned to be the same,
whether winning battles pyrrhic or losing at life’s game.
Building spoil heaps of its triumphs, or grave- pits
for its fame, each fractal of existence spawned
a fractal once again, – from a minuet to jig.
Each spiral lost in the spiral whole, each
dance serene, until the final blow,
turns a minuet to…
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