A little
more than three years ago I had written about cranes heading south, which I had
seen from a hospital in Meerbusch. It was early November. This weekend (first
weekend in March) I've been in the Eifel region and could watch the cranes
returning north. My brother told me the last migrating south he had seen in December.
The cranes came in waves and we’ve heard thousands of cranes (not wild geese)
cattering before they flew above us In Diefenbach. Here are some of the
pictures, I've been able to take yesterday.
Winding higher up in the thermic
Complex lines
Winter
During this
Winter
We
Shall
Fly
With the
Crows
And not
With the
Cranes
Rhine
River running and rolling
Then slackened and stagnant
Barks bowing to billows
Olive water and withered willows
Boys playing on barren banks
Black smoke blown from barbecues
Mists moving though mornings
Icy mud clings to the mooring
The cranes cross in large crowds
Winter mollies the waterfront
White blanket melts despite the whiff
Rivulet murmurs into the Rhine
Spring returns with snowmelt
River sloshes around and across the slopes
First buds opening for the busy bees
Oh, join me for a journey
Along the towpaths and through towns
Through all seasons with sober mirth
Simmering
water
The rice is nearly ready
But the cranes will leave
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