A sign of the times

 "Delineations" was first published in Able Muse, Volume 10, Winter 2010, and subsequently in my first collection Lines of Flight.

 

 

 

Delineations

 

Wild geese flee the coming cold and ice,

 sketching the sky with epic Vs;

no roundabout for these –

their route precise.

 

Starlings in formation never jostle –

            aggregates of living art,

                        together yet apart

                                    in graceful rustle.

 

Patterns of exuberant design,

            cadenza, cadence, wavelength, arrow,

                        slant or straight and narrow –

                                    theirs, mine.