Four Geese
Early this morning,
high above the car
in the sky’s giant highway,
four geese flew overhead
honking.
A welcome sign of spring,
they reminded me of summer sunshine
as they framed themselves
for a moment in the moon roof.
“Remember those happy days,”
they seemed to cry
as they carved their sky path
far above my head.
I remembered a moonless night
with the admiral out ahead
steering by the stars
and, seemingly sightless,
the great flock following.
That night
I pinpointed their calls
leaning back, looking up,
straining my neck,
and for a moment
there were no stars,
just a feathered blackness
shutting out the Big Dipper
as it hung in the sky
above the river St. John.
At Montmagny,
on the St. Lawrence River,
the great white geese
will soon be gathering.
White on their arrival
they will drift like snow
and accumulate on the land.
Alban angels,
harbingers of spring,
guardians of summer’s perfection.,
they too will blotting out the sky
and leaving me breathless,
overwhelmed
by my many memories.
rogermoorepoet 
We often drive the west side of the river from Quebec to Montreal and see the white geese in their huge flocks!
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The first time I saw them, I thought it was a large, late snowdrift. hen they got up and flew away. It was a bit like a movie in reverse!
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I love this. Yesterday I was driving past the big ponds in my neighborhood, and there were four Canadian Geese, a sure sign of spring. They nest not far from that pond. All the trees are budding. We are close!
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We are way below average March temperatures. -16C here this morning and a cold wind all the way down from the Arctic. Brrrrr! We missed the last storm though and have kept our power. The fire is all ready to be lit … maybe tomorrow … we have friends over for lunch …
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Enjoy your company and stay warm. We are finally hitting that warming trend. It will reach you soon.
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It reached us a month ago … then it vanished and we got the Arctic winds back! We have faith, though: spring is on its way.
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Very wistful, Roger. When I was a child, the Canada geese flying north or south were indeed a harbinger of the new season but these days, the geese seem to fly in circles, and never leave!
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-16C here this morning. W saw four geese yesterday, but there aren’t too many signs of spring. It’s still pretty cold out there and way below average temperatures. We did miss that last storm though.
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Thank goodness for that! We’ve been having very cold weather too, but wildly swinging back to warm for the weekend.
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