Live Encounters Poetry & Writing, Special Edition on Humour June 2024.
Mid-autumn fledgling, poem by Jeltje Fanoy.
Mid-autumn fledgling
Laughing at us –
strutting willy-nilly,
here and there
or dreamlike,
purposeless strutting
or irritable gait
of stressed-out fledgling,
magpies in the park
© Jeltje Fanoy
Jeltje Fanoy has been involved with poetry and poetry small presses in Melbourne since the nineteen seventies. This poem is part of a series of park poems. She’s been spending a lot of time in a little park near her home these last couple of years, as a carer for a close friend. However, birds do appear everywhere in her work.