Cliff

Cliff

I cannot take a breath
Swallow air
Rigid ribcage imprisons
Eyes fixated on the depth
A glinting lake beckons below
Made small by distance
Encircled by this cliff face
Glacially ground out
A bowl caverned into the mountain
Looking down exerts a pull
Closer to the cliff edge
Inhaling, stepping back
Defying the call of the cwm.

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What is the cwm?

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The Cheesesellers Wife says:

January 7, 2017 at 6:32 pm

It’s a welsh word for a rounded, glaciated valley high in the mountains, also known as a coombe, corrie or cirque. Its where a glacier started, the ice in the glacier has, over the years, ground out the shape into the side of the mountain.

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