A Wild Adventure by Tom Pow

Author:Tom Pow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Birlinn

3. Lorikeets

As if when God’s finished creating light

He has some left over he’s loath to waste

So he weaves the scraps he has – a few bright

Threads around his feet, on the edge of sight

But dazzling as flower beds in the white

Fields of snow – and from these the lorikeets

Are born. They are concentrations of light –

Light spectra on the wing. Hear them greet

Their own pleasure – chests rose hips in sunlight;

Imagine an autumn hedgerow in flight!

Each day before him the dead are laid out.

He’s watched the air spill from their wings – the shout

Of someone’s success. As they fall, the bright-

Ness leaves their eyes. He learns when not in flight

They preen each other, for each takes delight

In the other. Lorikeets mate for life.

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