Geese by Wendy McVicker in Farewell Issue, Journal of Mythic Arts, 2008 — Endicott Studio

Geese

by Wendy McVicker


Scrubbing a sorrowful passage

in the ancient stairwell, she pauses


by the leaded window

to watch geese like windblown paper


lift and curve into the air.

Setting her brush on the stone


step, she runs for bread

to scatter on the grass,


thick and sweet beside

the black moat —


kneels there, begging,

calling them back










About the Author:
Wendy McVicker lives and writes in the beautiful green hills of Athens, Ohio. In her poetry, she seeks "to honor memory and the slow, deep process of knowing." Her poems have appeared in Appalachian Women's Journal, Confluence, Riverwind, and Whiskey Island, among others. She is a teaching poet with the Ohio Arts Council's Arts in Education program, and has been inciting poetry in schools, libraries, galleries, and community centers since 1987.

Copyright © 2008 by Wendy McVicker. This poem may not be reproduced in any form without the author's express written permission.



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