excerpts from Birds
a nervous disposition
birds of television
low action poised
naught attrition
the bounds (cloaked)
generally dark
dawn
a priest
an action movement
rocks side
a region of me
face
sunning whistle
(little) radiance
globe set far
a rebel of late
bride brought into the open and taught
the son of the polite season
quite difficult to ignore the ventriloquists
seen from distance
tour
tür
to err
till earth to
until
place
palace boulder groan
fell tower falter (groat)
greet loam
flow antenna
err as if in (dream)
mute
cut
oft timothy
to clover gloam
linen
quilt while
rushes need
red bright incessant
faced the dress heart
on this language
will wear you for all the good you have done
family semi-captive
secondaries of muticus
latter has a duller territorial
primary colour of parts
Along their attire
glance across glist
minister me
wednesday agreement
known for use of the
and named for it
fear thrown across
stark scatter stutter
shrink dark
voice calling caul
beam break beaker
“webs’” for fishing trains
will move destruction to contrast
night whorl ripple
slow picture
hame influence
of these has
become a then
warm many
training national
june theodore theodore
On Friday 22nd March 2013, Chris Holdaway recorded Ross Brighton reading <i>Birds</i> in its entirety, at his home in Auckland.