Poems by Eric Forsbergh
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On a Walk
by Eric Forsbergh
From Canary Summer 2020
Eric lives in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, close to the confluence of the Shenandoah River and the Potomac River. This area is included in the Piedmont region of Virginia, lying between Great Falls, Virginia, and the Blue Ridge Mountains.
An effervescence of breeze
through tree leaves
lengthens my step.
Clouds crowd in.
Abrupt, a swath of white wings
lands in stride, folds
- impossible origami –
into an egret. Gusts uncoil to
serrate a pond’s surface.
Along its edge: black stalk legs,
a slender step, the sharpened yellow
pencil of a beak, the raindrop eye.
A slow elegance with
a quick efficiency for frogs.
© Eric Forsbergh