Isolation

 [Isolation]

 never before

black cockatoos in our tree

yellow-tailed black cockatoos

 

thinks by the time

I get the camera

they’ll have flown away

 

three of them

the usual racket

I almost fell over

 

Cloudland 13^th of May 2020

Copious Notes: Found this short haiku-like poem today in a file. History tells us that Victoria’s initial state of emergency notice on 16^th March 2020 was extended on 12^th April and again on 11^th of May, constituting the First Lockdown. Cloudland is a name we sometimes use at home for Macleod, the secluded suburb where we reside in the NE of Melbourne. The image is a recent illumination of street badging in the Richmond area, a large suburb in the inner east of Melbourne.