A flotilla, a squadron, of geese
descending from Canada
crossing the lake, by air, by sea,
crashing, storming my beach
like Normandy this morning
an allied invasion, a crescendo.
Honking, bleating like sheep,
shouting commands, Reveille;
No gun emplacements
to stop their progress,
no mines, razor wire.
I was still sleeping,
before my first cup of coffee
sunlight filling
My one-room cabin,
Watching their forward progress
From a safe distance.
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edited January 4, 2022
A squadron of geese – v3
edited January 4, 2022
A squadron of geese – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/01/a-squadron-of-geese-v2.html
January 3, 2022
A squadron of geese
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/01/a-squadron-of-geese.html
written after reading Clapp’s Brook by Mary Oliver
January 3, 2022
The bear cub
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/01/the-bear-cub.html
About drive out of Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument
after 2019 Stars Over Katahdin dark skies event.
Drafted after reading first part of poem "Clapp's Brook" by Mary
Oliver.
&
edited January 7, 2016
June Morning – v3
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/01/june-morning-v3.html
(merging edits to original and version 2)
Edited May 25, 2013
June Morning – v2
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/05/june-morning-v2.html
posted 2/17/04
written June 8, 2000 9:53pm
June Morning
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/02/june-morning.html
about morning in the summer of 2000
Swains Lake
Barrington, NH
&
edited
March 21, 2021
Nightfall
- v6
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/03/nightfall-v6.html
edited
September 28, 2017
Nightfall
– v5
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2017/09/nightfall-v5.html
Edited
July 18, 2013
“Nightfall
– v4”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/07/nightfall-v4.html
Edited
July 15, 2013
“Nightfall
– v3”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/07/nightfall-v3.html
Edited
July 15, 2013
“Nightfall
– v2”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/07/nightfall-v2.html
July
20, 2000
“Nightfall”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/02/nightfall.html
Written
Thursday 7/20/00 at 9:50. It is about my two hour canoe ride
on
Swains Lake from 7:15 to 9:20pm.
Barrington,
NH
edited
December 28, 2015
Alone
in the Rain – revised – v2
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/12/alone-in-rain-revised-v2.html
posted
February 13, 2004
written
August 13, 2000 1:53am
Alone
in the Rain – revised
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/02/alone-in-rain.html
Written
6/18/2000
Alone
in the Rain
same
day as “Dew in the Morning”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/02/dew-in-morning-first-try.html
and
“Ten
Feet Overhead”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/02/one-morning-on-swains-lake.html
&
edited March 21, 2021
Apricot and Periwinkle - v6
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/03/apricot-and-periwinkle-v6.html
edited May 5, 2018
Apricot and Periwinkle – v5
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/05/apricot-and-periwinkle-v5.html
(editing version 4, adding 1st stanza)
edited September 28, 2017
Apricot and Periwinkle – v4
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2017/09/apricot-and-periwinkle-v4.html
edited January 18, 2016
Apricot and Periwinkle – v3
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/01/apricot-and-periwinkle-v3.html
(merging edits to version 2 and original)
edited June 21, 2014
Apricot and Periwinkle – v2
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/apricot-and-periwinkle-v2.html
Written 8/28/00 at 10:20 at night
Apricot and Periwinkle
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/02/sunset-seeing-colors.html
Written 8/28/00 at 10:20 at night
Swain’s Lake, Barrington, NH
Barrington, NH, nature, sunrise,
lake, geese, God, creator, creation, Mary Oliver,
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#MaryOliver #creation #creator #NH
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