Consider the Wren


In the scrub
of jingling heather,
on the dewy
tussock grass,
a blue fairywren
lays dead...


A matchbook
of cockfeathers
still!
gas-flame blue,
come to
a rich pass.


Like sky-stained
glass:
Bright-shining!
after life.


1988- 1997 Wayne David Knoll


This poem was first presented in public in a live performance by the author at the Vice-Regal memorial service for Princess Diana, at the 'Tent of Meeting', Canberra, 1997