Green Butterflies

Green Butterflies 8th Jan 2008 10:45am

Platanus doolyar waarlitjabin waar-koorliny - nyaarng-korl baarng, bordak-ngat, daardj maarngka-waariny, red flowers, hanging suspended, and below the spent carcasses of their kill - these birds of prey leaves of the affray seldom resting, tossed and twisting in the thermals bending - green butterflies that allure the eye, green oxygen givers I watch them fly.

doolyar: large leaves

waarlitj: eagle

abin: becoming

waar: flying

koorliny: going/moving

nyaarng-korl baarng: this way and that

bordak: close

ngat: near

daardj: meat

maarngka: branches

waariny: hanging