Geoff Collins

October Geese

On our street, an elderly couple
walks together each evening

and it is easy to see how they cling
to one another so tightly, how each 

slow step brings them closer.
And the geese that fly overhead 

in October, how they sing
each other home, how they stay 

together in formation, their voices
echoing across the marsh.

I do not know why it is this way
and not some other way.

The couple lying quietly in their bed.
The geese passing above in darkness.

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