Snow, Cockatoo
- Snow, Cockatoo
they came in the heaving bulkof their birdness teasing turningwheeling scudding on airnow white on greenthough shifting trembling rising nowthen settling as living feathered snow
was this our white Christmaswhile the city so distantlynear blazed in eucalyptialsilkiness beyond the graying grassesthe park's unseen partnering thrum?
white cockatoo now on willowon water wave-folding in memory [End Page 48]
Alastair Clarke
Alastair Clarke is a New Zealander who has recently returned to the country after living for a number of years in Britain and Australia. He teaches English. This is his first appearance in Antipodes.
