Cockatoo Haiku

June 27, 2026
3 months

In silver birches
Black cockatoos perch and play
“Just passing – nice trees!”

James Parker

James Parker is a Tasmanian historian (but with deep connections to Sydney), who writes and talks on mainly colonial subjects – especially convicts, women and the Tasmanian Aboriginal people.

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