Ngalyod Refracted

Colour and exotic imagery give this a strong visual appeal. It has that sense of the primitive, the mythological not just by dint of subject-matter but in the primary stark language.

The compounds add to this effect - "hide-sheltered", "sorry-specked", rain-washed - and the staccato syntactic inversions of such phrases as "Long time come" and "Long time past".

It leaves a wonderful hot-coloured aftermath in the mind of rainbow streaked parrots and hot wing-beating skies...Very nice on a dull dank October day!...Rgds., Alan.