07/06/2026
Hello friends,
This will be my last share for the Roma on Bungil Gallery exhibition with Cate Day. With one week left, it has been such a great experience and thank you for such positive feedback from you all re the collection. It is heartwarming to know that some of my pieces have found homes across SW/SE Qld and NSW! Feeling grateful.
Here is the last poem to go with Cockatoo Rabble!
Bird photographic references: Kerry Schemioneck, Benjamin Nelson
(Sulphur Crested Cockatoos)
Watercolour on Arches 300 gsm paper, with timber frame under glass
72 x 80 cm
Cockatoo Rabble!
Raucous flocks of white and yellow descend to forage,
the sentry perched high, awaiting danger.
They feast on nature’s buffet — seeds, nuts, berries, roots, and insects —
crunching branches to keep strong beaks trimmed.
They screech and whistle, playful and curious,
social, intelligent, gloriously noisy.
For forty years they watch the world beside a lifelong mate,
returning to the same high tree hollows to tend their young.
Their wild chorus carrying across the sky.
