Fred Cogswell: The Many-Dimensioned Self

by Tony Tremblay

Tame Goose

Down high ways of heaven wild geese flythe tame goose answers with a cry

along a ring of palings highshe stretches neck and runs to trythe mocking wings she can't control

but when the goose-girl brings the ryeshe snatches up and gobbles wholethe grain safe nestling in the bowl

nor heeds the whistling wings gone by.

From Lost Dimension. Reprinted with permission of Kathleen Forsythe, Cogswell's literary executor. Back to Selected Poems