Kerri Shying R # 93 Spring Bird in the Antipodes

Spring bird in the Antipodes

 ( to Justine)

it sprang up on that antenna like that

damn clock used to

come out go in

the Bavarian House

once upon the hour

It was looking

at me laughing

a woman on the bus stop

and the more I looked the more

I thought

the bus was not the bus for me

today

as much as I said

I said

stupid woman being anxious being anxious

you never can just sit you

let the birds

talk

to you and yet

and yet

the bird turned side on for a better look

at gimptard sitting on her walker

on the way to no-one 
 never laughed

flew up to the highest TV

mast I’ve ever seen – oil rigs couldn’t take a lick

at this -three times the height

of the house

ready to topple

like an iceberg

made of wires

all redundant now 
but for the sitting

for the sitting

for the sitting of the mate

 lady friend was where

the bird was going -the kookaburra

and the world

changed

sun shone ground grew warm

the ants

just dancing Buby Berkeley musicals around my boot who

gives a shit about the bus

the bird forgives

it’s got romance on the brain not me

the prospect of a cab occurs

 or that

I missed a bus it

just

came early

take a hint from me
 the choice

of avian oracles is hit and miss

 at best

even discount being shit on

it takes a lot of factors

to make a thing come right I

called a cab

and waited cursing

at myself

saying

laughing

birdbrain birdbrain

bird brain.