"Wild Geese Alighting on a Lake" by Anne Porter

"In For the Evening" by Peter Mathios

I watched them

As they neared the lake

They wheeled

In a wide arc

With beating wings

And then

They put their wings to sleep

And glided downward in a drift

Of pure abandonment

Until they touched

The surface of the lake

Composed their wings

And settled

On the rippling water

As though it were a nest.

"Wild Geese Alighting on a Lake" by Anne Porter from Living Things. © Zoland Books, 2006.