Spectator poems
From the magazine

On Tor y Foel

Paul Henry
EXPLORE THE ISSUE 18 October 2025
issue 18 October 2025

I am floating on heather again.

A fleece unshorn for fifty years

slips off me, rolls down the hill.

Its tumbleweed won’t stop

till the village where Gary and Bill

wait for me and Emmy unlocks 

the corrugated hall and Stahl repairs

his Morris outside Nancy’s shop.

It’s early May. The bleating fields

and the drone of Glyn’s tractor rise.

The sunlight brims with larks.

I am not the man I became

but inside a song, a dazzling stream,

the laughter of friends on the breeze.