The Smokey Hills of Minnesota

The geese rang
"Like dogs in the distance,"
You said.
"Like church bells in the hills, further off,"
You insisted.
"See them in the field?
Those two? Calling to everyone gone?"
We walked some more; you almost sang.
"I think it is mating behavior,"
You said.
I thought my thought, but yielded.
I looked past the hill and through the fields.
Around the edge was always blue.
I wrote down your words and saved the paper.
But I remember only you.
Yes,
It is mating behavior.

Stephen Philbrick

Biography

Stephen Philbrick is a poet and minister of the West Cummington Congregational Church. He is a member of the “Church Hill Poets” and has written three books of poetry entitled, Three, No Goodbye and Up to the Elbow. Steve is also a member of the Woodlands Cooperative and recently published a book with his son Frank entitled, The Backyard Lumberjack: The Ultimate Guide to Felling, Bucking, Splitting and Stacking. Steve and his wife Connie own land in Windsor, Massachusetts.

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