Yesterday ... quite late

As dusk started to break

Heard squawking geese

Yet could not see ...



Until I look'd up ...

Stopp'd quite abrupt

A formation in a "v"

With one leg longer - a tree



Almost exact, but for three or four

Interrupting the line - sounding caws

Shouting out to others the order ...

"Get back in line" - a tape recorder ...



Repeating the same sounds

As birds floated on down ...

Heading south for the winter

No longer will they hinder ...



Finally, they have now gone 

To other places along ...

The coast, or perhaps, inland

Leaving us to clean their stand

   

(c) Christopher W. Thomas

11:20am Sunday, Oct. 4th, 1998