18th November 2025

 

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G D E A

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© Rachel Green November 2025

The Folly of Confidence

Worm's Head, a rite of passage for the Gower,

when low tide brings the causeway into play

where careful scrambling for many an hour 

to reach the outer head by end of day.

And back, of course, but through the middle part

one can take the gentler route around the pools

I chose instead to cross the jagged sharps

that walk against the sky above the fools.

I step across a pit a meter wide

that drops down thirty feet to raging sea

but lose my footing and fall deep inside

and crash upon my back, and broken, be.

 I'm sure I'll be alright and be found soon

 before the ocean rises with the moon.

© Rachel Green November 2025