Five Winged Forms of Life on Planet Boolook

FOUR LOOKS AT LIFE ON PLANET BOOLOOK




1. Forest Kingfisher

It flies between a tea-tree-bordered shallow reedy lake
And the weeping willows spread by a small farm dam,
Like a dart missile behind the spear wedge of officious nose
With a navy uniform jacket of coloured sky or water blue shining like
A blazon flag to herald its double periscope in submarine sniping
Like a creature built with a radar of eyes set over and after fish.






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5. THE WINGED ROOM

The winged room is in a secret part
of the house, a soul door leading apart
from the clamour of a living opens up
out of enclosed walls to far revelations,
the vistas you often dreamed as a child
and the lost words you wanted to say
are moving on the read pages like music
played by heart, the pictures are drawn
in true colours, and the hope that yearns
ascends again, on its wings in live story,
call it centring, it is your genius at prayer.

- WDK