There are signs with bird names, pictures and descriptions
at the lake. 
Somebody wrote on one of them a year or so ago
in black pen “Nyungar names?”
A few days later the question was scrubbed off again;
gone, like it had never been.
Sometimes I run into the signs’ creator and her husband.

Last weekend Katie suggested we write up the names 
on stickers and place them on.
This week we’ve been talking about where we 
get our stories from—Katie kept mentioning signs like these.

Today, also in black pen,
someone has begun writing names under some of the birds.
Kakak. Yet. Kidjibroon. Kanamit. Wimbin. Maali. Wayan.
That’s as far as they’ve got.
I know the book they’re taken from—
they’re the same as the names I’ve learned.

Three days later the names are still there.
I wonder what the response will be
this time.