DIVAGATION from LOUISE GLÜCK

This is the moment when you see again
 the red berries of the mountain ash
 and in the dark sky
 the birds’ night migrations.

 
 
                                       I am seeing again the red
                                       seed head of rowan and almost
                                       the birds’ migration in the night
 


© Rodney Nelson



Rodney Nelson's poetry has been in journals for a long time. See his entry in the Poets & Writers directory: http://www.pw.org/content/rodney_nelson He has worked as a book and copy editor, living mainly on the West Coast; but he returned to his native Dakotas at the beginning of the century.