A Reasonable Passion
I.M. Ramon Loyola
Swooping black & white
the big rush of wings
territorial imperative
the terrorist attacks
respected or not
I love you well enough
look at all this poetry
won't you love me a bit
please dress my wound
the beak was very sharp
now where do we put it
the spring magpie machine
do we clear this mess
does the fever ever break
wait I’ll get the ladder
wait I'll stick it higher
put it in the top branches
of the pistachio tree
I've been recording the date of the first swoop of the season. It's been getting earlier, and it was July 16 last year. This year however is so far swoop-free.
ReplyDeleteHa. Here in central Vic school kids are afraid to leave home, businessmen shout for their mums, cops crawl in fours to their vehicles...while (thank the magpie god) drunks and poets so far have been granted a temporary dispensation.
DeleteWas swooped this avvo riding my bicycle into town. Ha! That'll teach them!
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