Another recent rough cut. C&C welcome as always.
LUCK
Sound comes as an instant
break to silence - this one
from a goose that stirs
other responses in its colony
on a distant bare sandbar -
echoes all over the estuary.
Gulls reply from this side
and neither know nor care
whether they can be heard
over there for its difficult
to be a gull and modulate
your tone when nature only
gave you one note on a scale
and a very short larynx.
The longer you sit and look out
on the river before you
the more you begin to feel lucky.
bw
James
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