All birds celestial, moving through purgatorial
vapours, ascending from trees glowing gold,
bands of colour in their wings, arising from earth
itself, interlopers calling the surveyed area
of flyover ‘our property’—cutting across cornices,
levels, layers, circles, rings—the list is held
by a magnet to the fridge, ‘birds seen on our…’:
black-faced cuckoo-shrike, pink and grey galah,
ring-necked parrot, kookaburra, azure kingfisher,
sacred kingfisher, rainbow honeyeater, crow,
Willie Wagtail, black-shouldered kite, Nankeen
Kestrel, wedge-tailed eagle, peregrine falcon
(telegraph lines on front road), mountain duck,
white-faced heron, black cockatoo, little corella,
senegal dove, silver eye, rufous song lark,
Jackie Winter, pardalote, goshawk, swift,
golden whistler, pallid cuckoo, magpie lark,
red wattle bird, New Holland honeyeater,
crested tit shrike, white-breasted robin, grey
fantail, weebill, yellow-rumped thornbill, painted
quail, red-capped robin, magpie, zebra finch,
Western Spinebill, egret, butcher bird…f lying
from seven trees of gold on the crest, shedding
seven bands of colour, perched on star pickets,
twists of barbed wire, alighting wild oats,
severing fruit, scratching gravel, shaking down
jam trees, earthing the aerial, infusing undergrowth.