Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Writers on Bimblebox Birds

Figbird

Bimblebox Nature Refuge is under threat from massive coal mining projects (including Clive Palmer) both directly over and under the refuge plus all around it, throughout the Galilee Basin. This means that the myriad life that thrives on Bimblebox is under threat, including the birds.

Bimblebox recorded poem:  Brown Honeyeater: Lichmera indistincta
Listen to Helen Hagemann read her poem Brown Honeyeater.  Play Sound

 

Brown Honeyeater: Lichmera indistincta


A brilliant blue, rising from a bronze morning
& Brown Honeyeaters are circling the garden.

Today, they are in the olive tree in my neighbour's
yard, performing aerial songs (although it's more a short

sharp, tweep!). Before spring, I counted two regular
visitors to our horticulture of Canna lilies, Yellow

Bird-of-Paradise, Grevillea, Frangipani, now there are
four! As if in concert, they dance, plunging to & fro.

It's balletic, reminding you of Rudolf Nureyev & Dame
Margot Fonteine in Romeo & Juliet. One of the

fledglings is as graceful as Maria Kochetkova, a
Giselle fluttering her wings, thin as the veil of a tutu.

There's fussing from parents, followed by a preen on
brick wall and hedge, a bird commotion of tutelage.

The best is their closeness, high in the branches, and now
that the young are fed and sleepy, the show has stopped.

Thursday, November 6, 2014


The Fascinator

I am at the Rec centre
listening to Eye of the Tiger,
the woofers and tweaks
from a broadcasting screen
of the Melbourne Cup.

I am also wearing a flowered hat
fashioned from a dewy morning. Three roses
& the absurdity of a polka dot crown
that becomes a curious millinery piece.

We are twenty five women talking above
the call of the race. Mostly, we know
nothing about horses, but do know songs
like Soda Pop, Williams' & Bublé's
jazzy tune we exercise to.

I could not predict the fortune carved into today.
I did not read the signs of Scorpio or Mercury
finished with its retrograde. How could
I know I would win a Melbourne Cup sweep,
have a great birthday surprise or win the award
for my Fascinator. Homemade. I could not.



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