on birds — feathered messengers from deep time
- Written by: Delia Falconer, Senior Lecturer, Creative Writing, UTS, University of Technology Sydney
Matthew Newton, Bob Brown Foundation/AAPWhen I experienced a great loss in in my early forties — almost a year to the day after another — I went to see my mother in the family home. She wasn’t a hugger or giver of advice, so instead we fed the birds. As she had when I was a child, she stood behind me in the kitchen with her...