Patricia Hegnauer
Flying With the Flock
winging
to home lake
dark fog cold winds
rustling feathers bone deep
rains slashing pinions banking right
familiar dark deep water flock echoes in ears
feathered whirrings lighting burnt air
voices open new path bank left
banking
bank left bank left
blind flying
trusting familiar pull
home decline to hidden lake
impossible to see fog fog fog
drawn by spraying churning sloshing
wearywings
pushing hard pushing pushing
level off level off level off
blind diving wet wedge caught cold winds
trapping sounds others speaking
stay stay stay stay stay stay stay
feet forward
wings backflapping rainy walls
talons reaching out into black squalling
water waves warm greensmells homelake
forest earth pines
feet into the storm
waves breaking
beaks down
falling
falling
falling wings out
push wings parachute
stop
stop stopping stop
splash splashing splashed
feathers bodies bones falling diving
bouncing backwards bouncing forward
home backwards home forwards
home head first
home home home home