February: Year-day 55

                                     
                                       
February: Year-day 55

Walking with Janice to our car, Powers
of Mind by Adam Smith in my right hand
with Jeane Dixon's Yesterday, Today, and
Forever to titillate a few hours
my future-tending, in-and-outing mind;
talking about the balmy air, and how
it moves the snow better than the truck's plow,
we crook to geese intruding/ from behind.

Two hundred about, I guess: as I'm asked
why they make so much noise--but then am told
questioningly, "Are they communicating?"--
and why their V formation: as they basked
in sight in the minus Celsius cold,
thrilling us with their ancient ways of dating.

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