Welsh Journals

could have been accumulated which could have made possible the removal of a centre from one site to another. That is why we saw in the plans to build an oil refmery on South Hook a threat to our whole existence. The balance of life in the sea is delicate and easily upset by pollution. If that pollution pours into confmed waters, as it might do into Milford Haven, the concentration of toxic fluids would soon start killing animals. As the life in our water and on our beaches became impoverished the contribution to education which we are able to make would quickly end and ten years' unremitting hard work would have gone for nothing. Gladly we admit we had no need to worry-or almost no need. Air-cooling the refinery removes a great danger. We are still anxious about copper concentrations in effluents; an accident-and who can absolutely prevent them ?-which allowed quantities of oil onto the water would embarrass our work much more than the refinery's. Nevertheless we continue that work at Dale Fort knowing that our giant new neighbour has regard to these things. We have been persuaded that refining oil and training future biologists can go on side by side. Oil, after all, had its origins in the living organisms which they study. LEVITATION Kick your flowery belly to the trees, In them slowly, Through the thick, water keeping Leaves and aromatic branches, Slowly scraping on your firm skin. Kick up to the huge sky; Fast to the splaying stars, Flaying spirals faster Round the suns And universe and Gods. Kick till the arc of your Bodies motion, stops For an extreme second. Then melt, disintegrate, Spread everywhere Within our love. Nicholas Evans