Cheers Max how about a digital camera ?such fun rushing home blowing things
up on the screen(but would mess up your poem
Reminds me of when my Oz sister came to visit here in London we sat in the
garden then from out of nowhere an Oz parrot appeared (never seen again!)
Well I suppose my ramblings have something to do with poetry???
Greelps P
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Subject: 24 Jan Bird Snaps
Bird Snaps
Drifting grandly over the lake -
the biggest water-bird we've seen!
Great black and white cantilevered
sections, and a pendulous throat pouch.
This pelican must have just dropped in
having tired on some long eccentric flight.
On the bay we've seen pelicans, eight
or so at a time, cruising, flying short
distances. Will this one stay?
or, better, be joined by a partner?
Later, we photograph it.
Later still, we look and can't find it.
End of pelican episode, it seems.
But the camera shop this evening
promises us a packet - a pouch - full.
And googling 'pelican' brings up:
Australian pelican...
travels wherever there are fish,
to Lake Eyre when not dry,
and 'as a vagrant to New Zealand'.
Also known to catch, drown,
and swallow seagulls, beak first.
Well, our lake never has seagulls.
The printed snaps prompt forgetfulness,
restore our slow-motion
silhouette of serenity,
rectangles of ruffled lake water
each with a central
tiny quadrilateral
of black and white.
- Wednesday 24 January 2007
Max Richards
Doncaster, Victoria
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