Geese


What did you mean when you said:- depth.
That is a word that I feel right now - depth.

Some geese flew over,
a clear cold sky in December.

THAT is what I mean you said: geese.
So Goddamn high with their thin shrieks
what is this being alone together?
this blind destiny?

knowing of that depth which we call the heavens
it's a very old feeling - a sort of compassion,
older than me.

I have seen and heard these birds all my life.
I dreamt as a child that they would take me with them
but I know now that they would have left me somewhere.

Aha, I said.
We stood  there, watched and listened.