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Wild geese poem lines find fresh readers online

Original: I want answers, but there are only the wild geese Calling, high in the almost-dark, bearing south, And me, stopped short

Lines from Susan Mansfield's poem 'Bearing South', published in New Writing Scotland 33, are being shared: the speaker, stopped on the doorstep of a 'not-quite home' with a bag of groceries, watches wild geese fly south in the near-dark and finds no answers, only the birds' calls. Readers appear drawn to the verses' sense of displacement and uncertainty.

Why now: unclear

Susan MansfieldNew Writing ScotlandThe Rooftop Busker

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• I want answers, but there are only the wild geese Calling, high in the almost-dark, bearing south, And me, stopped short, clutching a bag of groceries On the doorstep of my not-quite home… —Susan Mansfield, “Bearing South” from The Rooftop Busker: New Writing Scotland 33 (ASL,… · scotlit@mastodon.scot · 17

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