Kit Kelen's blue faced honeyeater (draft to accompany Dael Allison's painting of the same name)

blue faced honeyeater

(to accompany Dael Allison's painting of the same name)

thicket in

to beak about

green as a tree

let sway

we share

the flowering

let sky catch

light for visage

let pollen patch

if song's required

the chord

strings leaf and branch

the path

is outward, sideways, up

hang in the tune

together sated

stay as day lasts

green as a tree let sway

the painter's thick with gravity

it's barely known to them