I Saw the Geese by Beverley A’Court

And when we die & they ask,
‘What did you see?’ I’ll say;
I saw the geese;
carried in wind
like winged seed-cases,
a black-flecked & breaking strand across
the sky, above our heads, our house,
the line of an invisible wave,
their gently modulating ‘V’
forming and reforming,
ribbonning,
in ever-changing places
in rippling rivulets,
& then their streaming down
like wind-blown, falling seeds,
all spin and flicker,
filling the open sky,
showering the fields,
and sunset sand-flats
with wing-beating,
heart-beating
life.

From: https://en.ecopoiesis.ru/aktualnoe/news_post/in-resonance-with-the-earth-1

Date: 2024

By: Beverley A’Court (19??- )