Outside my window
Black cockatoos
Walk on the grass
searching for bugs and worms after the rain.

Outside my window
currawongs hover, seeking space between cockatoos,
hungry for bugs and worms after the rain.

Outside my window
plovers land and take off again.
Too many others searching for bugs and worms after the rain.
No room for eggs here.

Outside my window, magpies chase away the larger birds.

They won the yard today.

(In response to prompt #2 What’s Outside Your Window?)

As this is Jacinta’s first contribution to Australian Children’s Poetry we thought you’d like to know a little bit about her:

I’m a writer living in the bush in southern Tasmania with my black pug, Bellatrix. When I’m not writing I look out my window to Kunanyi, Mount Wellington, and watch the many birds foraging in the trees and on the grass. I write for children and hope to publish picture books.