I’m livid at Lost Cockatiel
Telfea’s poster pink
If I admitted what I feel
you’d send me to a shrink
We’re on our way to Harris Court
me and my skeleton key
to sneak up while Telfea’s out
and set sweet Sugar free
Pet shops, zoos and carnivals,
cages and enclosures,
amphibian emporiums,
Stop it, sickening losers!
I’ll stretch out wide Telfea’s cage
and lock dumb humans in it,
leave the plains to the elephants,
sky to lark and linnet!
Cut the range of human song
Bind our ten-toed stride
and let the animals thread the earth
by flock, by school, by pride
Telfea, oh Telfea
I don’t mean to blame you only
It’s not your fault all human blight
Has made poor Sugar lonely
♦
Kathleen Winter’s novel Annabel was a #1 bestseller in Canada and has been translated worldwide. Her story collection boYs edited by John Metcalf won numerous awards. Her Arctic memoir Boundless (2014) was shortlisted for Canada’s Weston and Taylor non fiction prizes and has been sold internationally. The Freedom in American Songs (Stories, Biblioasis) also came out in 2014. Born in the UK, Winter lives in Montreal after many years in Newfoundland.
♦♦♦
Sugar is no longer lonely, you see,
My posters brought Spice back,
Back to Sugar and me.
He was so happy to see his mommy
he started dancing and singing for me
This was his delight as well as mine
My birds arent caged you see
For he chooses what he decides to do
Like singing to and dancing for the loves of his life
Twice a day to me, His mommy and Sugar, his wife
He tells us he loves us and gives us kisses and snuggles up to boot
What a wonderful poem to stumble upon, I thought I took them all down, and a truly novel idea treating littler as literature loot!
I am happy that Spice and Sugar’s plight inspired you
He was gone a whole 7 days
He came home with no flight feathers left
You see for him, it was a terrifying maze
He is very happy to be here, I know it in my heart
and he is my blessing too
I am happy to leave my thread as well to give my thanks to you 🙂
Thank you for being inspired
And picking up my litter too
Sugar and Spice send their love
Back together because of loving people like you!
Sincerely,
Telfea, Sugar & Spice
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