- two wild swans
- came in the dark hours
- by star light far into the journey
- to lend their wings
- traveled north over ten rivers
- flew over moss riven
- boulders broken from the mother stone
- over the fens
- and spears of birch
- through the wordless
- winds and migrations
- flew over graves
- and lovers reaching blindly
- through sheets of northern lights
- two swans with feathers of falling snow
- in synchrony and angles
- across forests
- over rivers
- below Venus or
- clouds invisible borders
- carrying nothing
- besides star memories
- along arteries of the body
- into dark interiors
- through the moon's phases
- calling to each other
- on lovers' endless roads
- if you answer
- when you hear their call
- geese in loose and shifting lines
- from land to sea to cloud
- cross the evening sun red
- on clouds of plum
- and rivers inlaid in gold and flowing
- upon the slopes
- cross a border
- if you need to leave
- in every country
- we are born to the same body
- wind inimitable
- invisible forces change us
- beyond reach
- if you make the sky your home
- —it isn't easy, you can't bring
- those things—
- wrap in those lines
- cross with them
- wind turns the body
- and ground falls away
- geese unafraid of silence
- or empty sky
- must go must go must go
- reach into the wind
- move as clouds rimmed with sunlight
- or dark cloud of rain
- need to follow their flight
- like ice in the spring
- that once held the river
- light surges in the veins
- searches for the beginning
- of a journey yes
- music you haven't heard
- didn't know you needed
- opens deep