Flight of Fancy

Oh look! How wonderful!
Have you ever seen so many?

Old Spots, Saddlebacks, Sandy-and-Blacks,
Large Whites, and Middle Whites, and Large Black-Whites,
Berkshires, Tamworths, Moody-Woodies,

soaring high above Big Ben,
so graceful! Wheeling, turning, swooping low,
skimming the river and rising again
towards the sun! Have you ever seen

so many? Black Canarians, Blue Butts, Red Wattles,
Jejus, Fengjings and Surabayas - and is that
a pair of Mangalitsas? Oh, the beauty

of these creatures! How they climb the air!
And such variety! This is a day
I will remember always.

Such awe-inspiring promises,
the most splendiferous in living memory,
must have been made today

beneath Big Ben!