Like nearly all of my poems, “An American Visits Pembrokeshire” found its way to life through a series of association-leaps. I began with the idea of an American visitor being taken to a snooker room and then, with the link of the snooker balls’ rattle to the clank of the cattle grid, away to the nearby hills. As with any Pembrokeshire geography the movement to the cathedral was almost inevitable, but quite where the final wary regard for the Christian tradition came to an agnostic poet I am far from sure.

Robert Nisbet is a Welsh poet whose work has frequently appeared in the USA, in San Pedro River Review, Burningword Literary Journal, Third Wednesday and elsewhere. He has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize (twice) and for a Best of the Net award.