Snow Geese Flying at Night

The thin, white lines of geese high in the black sky 
remind me of a worm in the heart of a deer.

          But the geese are not a worm in the sky’s dark 
          heart.

Not that a worm in a heart is any more terrible than a 
sharp-shin’s talon in the breast

          of a house finch.

The geese do not take from the sky, I mean.

          A slight, white worm crossing a dark heart can
          be white geese high in the night

is what I mean.