Omar Musa quotes:

Mercury starts barkingat a bunch of colourful parrots sitting in the bending fennel. I let him off the leash, and they twitter and fly away, points in a moving constellation.Dad used to say Aussie birds reminded himof fish in the reef near his village, Free, multicoloured, dreamlike.

It is then he realises that certain things loom larger than forgiveness and reconciliation: memory, for one, and history, bloody history.