Parrot at Sea
I wonder at wave edge
how to portray
this scape,
this twilight,
its colour swell and rise.
a woman walks out of the
mist.
her parrot claws
and crabs her shoulder
in a treasure of images.
the great feathered body
of an African grey
puffs in the breeze sea.
cherry tail streaks the sky.
.
it echoes, mimics
the shuffle of waves,
the creak of a boat,
in pirate genes and gems.
the scuffed waves of its
neck
leads to a beak where shells
embed in sandwash.
the sun sets in its iris
eye.
Dorian Haarhoff