Slight waver  
Body curves  
Fin   
disturbs   
Petal jaundiced

Surface

Fin above  
water

**-**

Dives beak   
First andswings   
Neck between   
Its own  
Flurry of beating wings

There is its wake  
There’s the thrash then  
Concentric ripples  
 stray droplets  
Mist

**Babe, babe**

Dives beak first  
Bob up   
Righting  
close  
To wall 

Foot on-

First try  
  
***SPLASH!***

Second time…..

**Alrieeeeeee**

amongst   
The elders heads turnt  
Backward  
Pecking  
Tending to wing  
Feathers gloss

Babe not yet  
Luminesce  
Or sure of foot   
Copies

Elder none  
The wiser

\-

feet web  
Trails  
An indigo   
White striped  
Underwing

Territorial coot  
Drives her off  
She leaves her chicks behind  
They follow  
Wake of hounding coot

Hounding coot  
hops out   
when our   
Tinged friend   
sets up  
Further downstream 

Coot checks   
On her chicks.

Span parasols  
One who pecks at mite

Contract  
Head between feathers

**Wrangler**

Pecked and pecked  
By mother

Babe gets up  
And moves to shade of bush  
The others get  
more affectionate   
Yield of murmur and touch.

Mother follows to bushes  
Shade spread as she lowers  
She is close

The other two follow  
He returns  
Closer to mother’s side

Pecking at self

When Sunny Gets Blue