Travelling vignette

Main Street

Millicent Sunday afternoon

Is empty of human presence

But open to seagulls

Filling the sky with their gawky cries

Against the slow revolving rotors 

Of the wind farm.

Mount Gambier pine forests

Man made from horizon to horizon

Define a dark paradise where

Black yellow tail Cockatoos 

Criss crossing the sky

Having adapted to the pine cones 

Find a generous and infinite food source 

Where the Black red tail Cockatoos have not.

Evolution key to adaptation.

We have to adapt to climate change

Or like the Black red tail cockatoos

We'll make it on the endangered species list.

Lucette C. Bailliet ©