Friday, February 16, 2018

Starlings Over Westsylvania

Starlings over Great Falls, VA. (Robin Loznak/AP)


I shall have lost my way

At last somewhere between

The Neshannock and the Youghiogheny,


As porous as a shifting cloud

Of starlings over ruined fields

And the waters that divide them.


How do they not collide?







—a poem that begins with two lines by Michael Longley