Storm in Canberra today at 6.30pm. View from our backyard.
Since early February I had been engaged in a daily ritual of observing a decomposing pidgeon corpse on the top of the lane way between our house and the road (just behind the fence). First it was a lumpy dead bird with tussled greyed feathers, face up with its wings open. I almost tripped over it running out to the footpath. It was more of laziness in not having to clean it up rather than an obsession with death or forensics that I had started watching it. Then its eyes started hollowing out, and its muscles sinking into its chest. Ants and grubs moves in and infests. Dust blows over and dogs fondle it with their nose. Bones starts protruding and the feathers thins out. The pidgeon sinks into the ground, everything except its last feathers and a bulgy head you can hardly see. It stays that way for weeks and weeks and I wonder whether it could disintergrate further. Then today the rain came. The storm washes it all away.
6 comments:
you've been away from wellington too long.
Doesn't look so stormy....
what can't i see?
Dude! What else is suppose to entertain us?
i loves Canberra - wanna go back.. forget melbourne, forget sydney... they justfeel like an overcrowded version of NZ.
Canberra has KANGAROOs!!!
(and snakes!)
(huh? what just happend to my reply just before?)
Yes, come back, come back anytime. According to The Treasury the average Australian is twice as rich as they were 10 yrs ago. Pitty its not your average single mother, or your average indigenous person. But kiwis tend to do well up in the Gold Coast.
and what the hell is that stuff on your head? Did you injure yourself again? The first memories I have of you is you spending the first 4 weeks of third form in crutches.
ah.. blame julie. 'twas christmas day and she put sparkly thing on my head.
i'm gonna be in Sydney in Jan/Feb next year....
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