London has changed.
There are parakeets now on Hampstead heath.
Hundreds of them.
Staking their green mossy branches
bright green in the evening light
squawking above and over the evensong
of what pigeons and thrushes remain.
Were they all descended from a single pair
an Adam and Eve who flew the golden cage
their garden of Eden
to populate the wilds of London?
Are these the most northerly
wild parakeets in the world?
There are parakeets now on Hampstead heath.
Hundreds of them.
Staking their green mossy branches
bright green in the evening light
squawking above and over the evensong
of what pigeons and thrushes remain.
Were they all descended from a single pair
an Adam and Eve who flew the golden cage
their garden of Eden
to populate the wilds of London?
Are these the most northerly
wild parakeets in the world?
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