- Canadian geese usher in the morning,
- crash-landing in the deepest waters
- of the lake. Mallards and Muscovies
- crane their necks to the waking call.
- Feeble stirrings on the shoreline
- mark the break of day.
- Their day begins
- with a preening of their feathers
- before they parade the trails.
- The feathers they leave behind
- are gathered by English sparrows
- and flown to their nesting sites.
- I scatter cracked corn along the bank
- and begin my journey around the lake.
- In slow procession, the ducks and I
- make shadows for the dragonflies.
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