Sound Video- Corellas Fly to Roost
COLLECTIVE NOUNS IN FLIGHT
If you've watched
evolved Attenborough's latest 'Flight'
you'll know that
this nature documentary in 3D by
third degree features
mobbing-massive flocks of Starlings arriving
in Rome to roost
in park trees, which, to avoid peregrine
falcons fly a dance
in formation, a blitz-n-blizzard of birds
that he calls
by the established name, a murmeration.
So now I wonder,
for every night I've heard before sight
a massed flock
coming in to roost, but of Australian birds,
to the parkland trees
inside the watered town, I'm hearing
no murmurs
for this cloud's a mass screech of Corellas seen
or unseen
a sound-cloud which to be believed must be heard
and might
collectively be named a cacophonation.
25 February 2015
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