Listen

by Robin Enns

not sure
        yet
  when the signal
     will come
 the  leaves
        and the trees


        wait

  and the frost
      hesitates 

not sure (either)

        when the signal
                will come

some (with ears more finely tuned)
   hear
                something
         in

    the   winding song of the wind

        the message their geese

    hear earlier

                and they just
      let go
                let go

    let
          go

   twirling
                and
                        s  w
                          i
                             r
                       l
                           i
                        n
                                g
     down

                down to
        mother
                earth