Kingsbrae 20.2
20 June 2017
Summer Visitors
Wind-blown birds,
songsters, passerines,
carried up from the south
on the wind’s wings.
Myths become facts:
hummingbirds on
eagles’ backs, warm,
clinging, feather-nested.
The following wind
drives carrier and
passenger onwards
and upwards to our land.
Look to the Mountain Ash
with its Indigo Bunting,
rare passerines flourish,
too, new, sudden and
unexpected visitors, drawn
north by our sun’s magnet
and our short summer
season with its wealth:
swarming northern insects
(never forget
those migrant butterflies)
and pestilential flies.
