Departing Geese

departing geese

(3/23 , 1997)

FIRST PLACE     she taps in bean seeds     and shades her eyes to watch     departing geese                                     FerrisSECOND PLACE         over the pond         so low I hear her wings         northbound goose                                            -willard THIRD PLACE            undulating line            marking sky at winter's end            departing geese                                              ken kuniyuki            noisy geese            another season            without you                                     Fred            whistle stop            departing geese            on and off the floes                                                Yu ChangBELOW THIRD PLACE         departing geese         through the reeds         a river                           Paul MacNeil               awakening               from restless dreams...               departing geese                                               Jeanne Emrich      departing geese-      green grass must be sprouting      beyond the north wind                                               paulus the woodgnome            departing geese            he checks on last year's            swimming hole                                        -acm         noon whistle         in the distance         departing geese                                        Mark Alan Osterhaus               on the same soft wind               geese departing,               your return                                       Stephen Fox         geese departing north         in an unplowed corn field         two are left behind                                             Daveb555                     ... even so                     I'll do the taxes today                     the returning geese                                                          Charles Trumbull      vacant sky      filling the silence      departing geese                                     -- roberta berry               evening in Arizona--               black geese depart               across a green-gray sky                                                           Sara Brant                     driving southward                     and in the mirror                     departing geese                                                    Susan Bond         some departing geese         lingering on my lake--         I bid them godspeed                                               Glen L. Keener      stalled      in airport traffic--      geese departing                                     Joseph Kirschner               wistfully               we watch them go               departing geese                                              Maleti (Mary Lee McClure)         geese depart         the prison's outer lawn -         concertina                               Laura Young               many eyes track north               while departing geese sweep by               - they're longing for nests                                                               Loran John Hayden                                                               

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