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When we see wild geese flying over the valley here, it's perhaps 7 or 8.
This lunchtime, coming back from Totnes, approximately 200 flew ahead of me crossing the hillside, in several breaking vees. Hard to keep the car on an even course: I wanted to stop, get out, jubilate, fly.
So many poets write about them (Mark Doty, Mary Oliver, Kathleen Jamie for 3).
Here's the Mark Doty one I'm thinking of: http://www.dactyls-and-drakes.com/literatu…/poetry/migratory
And here's one of my own about wild swans (does that count?), written on the Isle of Iona, about migrating whoopers:
Almost a Prayer
After we’d trudged so far to the pass at the top
of the island, rain and wind beating our faces,
rising like a single uncluttered thought
from the lochan’s dark mouth a pair of swan,
whoopers, passing through to Siberia,
their curd-white a thickening, a measure
of silence hefted against grey air,
their presence an act of grace, almost a prayer.
© Roselle Angwin, in All the Missing Names of Love, IDP
Do you know about this inspiring project? https://www.flightoftheswans.org/
'One woman. 7,000 km. 11 countries. By paramotor.WWT's daring bid to fly with one of nature’s great migrations on a quest to save Bewick’s swans.'
They could do with our help.
After we’d trudged so far to the pass at the top
of the island, rain and wind beating our faces,
rising like a single uncluttered thought
from the lochan’s dark mouth a pair of swan,
whoopers, passing through to Siberia,
their curd-white a thickening, a measure
of silence hefted against grey air,
their presence an act of grace, almost a prayer.
© Roselle Angwin, in All the Missing Names of Love, IDP
Do you know about this inspiring project? https://www.flightoftheswans.org/
'One woman. 7,000 km. 11 countries. By paramotor.WWT's daring bid to fly with one of nature’s great migrations on a quest to save Bewick’s swans.'
They could do with our help.
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