Park Poetry: "Flying foxes (Fruit Bats)"

by Jules Leigh Koch after a day of hanging upside down the bats leave Botanic Park fully mobilised and self fueled their colony of 20,000 plus swarm into the evening sky like an inland Tsunami endless wing formations are patterned overhead their road rage chatter echoes out deterring birds of prey as they fly along the Torrens Valley looking for pollen and native fig trees while others find only…