“THERE’S NO THROUGH TRAIL” —HAN-SHAN, TRANSLATED BY GARY SNYDER
/ Waveform

Waveform

by Alder Geshem

Issue: Spring/Summer 2021

         dark birds
      far over
   the ocean

an invisible
   cord runs
      the length 
         of their line

             geese as
                aggregate 
                   moving in
                      waveform
                         in response
                            in meeting 
                               headwind

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Alder Geshem

About Alder Geshem

Alder Geshem has worked in the woods, on the sea, and as a news reporter; and published poems in Pithead Chapel, Toyon, and the High Plains Register.

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