Divagation from Louise Gluck by Rodney Nelson

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'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.