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The Geese, the Swans: Prospect Park, Brooklyn
2024-03-30T21_36_17Z (1)Peter Schneider
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By: Peter Schneider
What's a group?
this scattering of avian eating machines
unified by the stingy
seed-bearing hard-packed
dirt under the oaks
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Head-down goose-consciousness
the working of black neck muscles
occasional flare-ups and flappings
disrupt the average distance
a contagion of excitement
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Oh you geese!
with your pathetic pecking and delving
for cruddy bits of stems and pebbles in the turf /occasional seeds, decaying leaves and paper
Look up! Sky! Sky! Sky!
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And out on the lake
large and white
two swans sailing left to right
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