THE GEESE
by Jane Mead
slicing this frozen sky know
where they are going—
and want to get there.
Their call, both strange
and familiar, calls
to the strange and familiar
heart, and the landscape
becomes the landscape
of being, which becomes
the bright silos and snowy
fields over which the nuanced
and muscular geese
are calling—while time
and the heart take measure.
Image: “The Flight of the Snow Geese” by Lois Bryan.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Jane Mead is the recipient of awards and fellowships from the Lannan, Whiting, and Guggenheim foundations and the author of three collections of poetry. She is on the faculty of Drew University and farms in Northern California.
Silver Birch Press 
children, flying by example, wonder where they are going, great poem, asks alot of questions