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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