As I saunter across the pebbles
of Penarth beach next to the pier
my thoughts conjure Kathleen Thomas
who at only twenty years of age
became the first to swim the Channel
from Penarth to Weston-super-Mare.
Due to the tide the distance
between shores became twice as long.
What elation she must have experienced
as she reached the sands of Weston.
I watch the placid waves sizzle
on this somnolent, sunny spring day
and seem to view Kathleen Thomas' ghost
beginning her swim from the South Wales coast.
of Penarth beach next to the pier
my thoughts conjure Kathleen Thomas
who at only twenty years of age
became the first to swim the Channel
from Penarth to Weston-super-Mare.
Due to the tide the distance
between shores became twice as long.
What elation she must have experienced
as she reached the sands of Weston.
I watch the placid waves sizzle
on this somnolent, sunny spring day
and seem to view Kathleen Thomas' ghost
beginning her swim from the South Wales coast.
