Dancing Dust
	Poems by Mollie Caird (1922-2000)
	The kingfisher
Home Alphabetic index of poems Thematic index of poems Biography Gallery Contact and links	Along the shores of Galilee No wanderer can fail to see The shining kingfisher in flight, His arrowy passage halcyon-bright, Or perched on carob branch at rest With light-reflecting snowy breast, Sun glinting on his chestnut head And dagger-beak all burnished red. The Bible speaks of many things, Of laws and wars and deaths of kings, Of miracle and mystery And fishers on this very sea; And yet it never says a word About this wonder of a bird. 1977 The Dancing Dust and other poems, 1983