Shadow cast quick
With graceful speed
Lifts, navigates, slips
Across dry, cracked earth
Bisecting my route to you
Evermore searching
Solitary upon the wing
Big sky and alpine wind
Chill, thrill, driving low
To a sherduck’s paradise
In the lonely valley
Its soul’s lover lost
Your song of exile
On this lamenting fulmar
Rising, turning, gone
‘Ka ora, ka ora’
The prophet’s death
Meets us all
