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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=555976" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Hiraeth and Chewing Gum: Tropical botanist Llewelyn Williams 1901-1980</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=555976" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">The clans are splintered<br>Evans Williams Griffiths Price<br>title bearers of half-dark past, <br>side by side, alike<br>yet individual as the trees</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=555976" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">We crossed roads not to meet<br>sweet hidden goosegogs, <br>illicit pleasures of the boys<br>while our sisters learned sewing, <br>décor and decorum.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=555976" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Ach y fi! In the docks<br>the lame, the beggars<br>grimy from engine coke, <br>Welsh speaking, Portuguese speaking.<br>Tea-clippers. Hiraeth.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=555976" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Llewelyn went to Assam.<br>Already scholar, already<br>naturalist. Those goosegogs, <br>scratchy bilberries, <br>dirt-frilled daffodils.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=555976" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Assam to Wales, Chicago to Wales, <br>Venezuela to Wales, <br>from Thailand to Chicago.<br>His life fills these 56 boxes, <br>76.2 linear feet of shelves.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=555976" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">A poet of the camera, <br>in pages of threescore years<br>he photographed lush plants, <br>jasmines, coffees, exotics<br>of doubtful spread.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=555976" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">He strode, sailed, flew<br>with greatcoat and briefcase, <br>trunks of equipment, <br>bold information-runner, <br>intelligence botanist, </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=555976" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">committed recorder<br>at the zenith of industry<br>of leaves through a pinprick, <br>vistas in the plantations, <br>shuttered light.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=555976" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">These Welsh words are simples.<br>No names for tropical trees<br>in our hemmed-in language<br>Of the heart and hearth.<br>English the passport.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=555976" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Botanical Latin<br>(which is often Turkish) <br>set over the poetry<br>of our lives, their secrets<br>arcane.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=555976" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Oh she met him, she'd have loved<br>Chicago Taffs, the Venezuelans, <br>Patagonians, inroads in Thailand.<br>She'd have breathed in<br>the excitement of the tropics.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=555976" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">This love affair of the tree-juice, <br>latex, the warm sun-sap<br>that sets all elastic.<br>There's money and honour<br>in this kind of drug-running.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=555976" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Chile, chile, gutter percha, <br>couma, jelutong<br>set against hallucinogens, <br>white wicked milk<br>of sleep-bearing poppies.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=555976" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">But Welsh is for poetry, <br>for tradition and goodness<br>from Dafydd ap Gwylim<br>to englyn, cynganedd<br>and the bawdy penillion.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=555976" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Travel letters to Mary, <br>stay-at-home wife like a sister, <br>paper pulped from pine, <br>commercial tree products.<br>A life-work's demands.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=555976" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Chewing gum. Long riding, hard<br>dancing, the youth cult.<br>Mucky and sweet, gum arabic<br>with spearmint, the sharp plant, <br>penetrating flower.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=555976" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">We cannot eat grass. <br>There is need for this substance, <br>grey in spittle, imported.<br>There is need for the scientist, <br>Welsh world patriot.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=555976" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">I believe this puzzled world<br>that begins in the valleys<br>and stretches out everyway.<br>The same at seventy-five <br>as at twenty-five.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=555976" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Da Iawn, Pob Hwyl.<br>In Time's trapped classroom<br>Llewelyn of the chewing gum<br>still sips his Assam, as he<br>nods to his friends, </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=555976" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Welsh still on his tongue, <br>in his archive, his own forest<br>waiting, the trees named<br>in their order, surviving<br>careless and confident.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><a href="http://poems.citatepedia.com/">poem</a> by <strong><a rel="author" href="http://authors.citatepedia.com/by.php?a=Sally+Evans">Sally Evans</a></strong></div>