Tuesday, May 4, 2021

It's that time of year

 Went out to watch the robins, and suddenly,  a way off down over the hill and the trees, I heard geese, rowing north again.   The sound that makes you forget that your feet are cold,  the door is open, and you need to keep breathing.  

I read this aloud.  Like most  poems, it's  meant to be heard, too.


Wild Geese--Robert P. Tristam Coffin

Beauty is coming North again
Slanting eager as the rain;
With necks like arrows on a bow
Across the sky the wild geese go.

Beauty is coming moulded by
High winds of the upper sky
Into shapes that burn to be
In a patterned symmetry.

Loveliness comes like a host
Of lean ships headed for a coast,
Every sail and every keel
Pointed at a common weal.

Comeliness in company,
Every wing where it should be,
Their feathers are communal things.
They help each other with their wings.

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