Snow Geese

Sometimes there were signs.
After the March maelstrom,
I snowshoed up
our mountain in morning sun
and tracked into another storm.

At first, I thought the yappings
were coyotes chasing me.
But veeing overhead,
all white with black-tipped wings,
calling me...then disappearing
into the oncoming blow,
was a flight of snow geese.

By the time I got down
the cottoned forest was prismed
in the thawing light. Drops glistened
and draped every tree
like a diamond necklace
adorning my wife
singing The Merry Widow.

For a moment,
Vilia was in the mist
between tall pines.
The wood nymph’s presence,
was fresh and chilly,
a rush of rivulets.

Winter loosened its grip—
like the last clutch
of her hand before she slipped
into unconsciousness.

“Snow Geese,” a sample poem from A Place by Water, by H. Bruce McEver.

Chapbook, poetry.
Foreword by Thomas Lux
36 pages, 13 poems
Saddle stitch binding
Four-color cover, acid-free paper throughout
ISBN 0-9727455-0-5

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Cover photo by Bill Binzen