This poem is taken from Stand 248, 23(4) December 2025 - February 2026.
Ode to the Blue-headed Tree Agama
(Uganda, 1950s-60s, England 2020)
(Uganda, 1950s-60s, England 2020)
You, bluehead – acid-blue – hard-sparkler, bark-
scuttler, nod-nodding, blaze unrestful
(not like these shadowed bluebells, violets, dark-
incandescing through lag-leaf April).
Twenty-five years or more, your slowblood span,
...
scuttler, nod-nodding, blaze unrestful
(not like these shadowed bluebells, violets, dark-
incandescing through lag-leaf April).
Twenty-five years or more, your slowblood span,
...
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