A Horse Galloping Through Brecon Museum
before the capture
of silver upon glass
it was a lucky guess
by the artist
to paint the correct gait
of a horse
the life-size portrait
of the Marquess of Bute’s
stud stallion
an arrested study of proportion
action
the feisty hero of the track
ready to leap
from the wall
intuition
a better wager than the photographic plate
that stable in its nitrate
repeats and does not create
Gareth Writer-Davies; Shortlisted for the Bridport Prize and the Erbacce Prize (2014) Commended in the Prole Laureate Competition, the Welsh Poetry Competition (2015) He is the Prole Laureate for 2017 and Highly Commended in the Welsh Poetry Competition. His pamphlet Bodies was published in 2015 by Indigo Dreams and Cry Baby, in 2017. https://www.facebook.com/gareth.writerdavies http://www.indigodreams.co.uk/gareth-writer-davies/4587920255