Sometimes a Name is Superfluous

            ...and fowl that may fly above

            the earth in the open firmament

            of heaven.

                 Genesis 1:20 KJV

we stood on a dune’s edge

and stared out into the face of the sky

waiting for migratory birds to stop,

 pause before moving on

but first to preen in front of bird lovers

or even those who don’t know names,

flight patterns or identifying marks—

a group gathered with their tripods

and long necked binoculars—

they waited, paged through bird books,

checking, scanning the sky, 

then, as if on schedule, the sky filled

with white— snow geese the birder

offered to the uninitiated, to those who

lacked a name for the white plumed birds—

we didn’t write the day and time of the sighting,

nor did we record their loud and raucous honking

פָּנֶה   face— " used in a great variety of applications ( literal and figurative)" Strongs Concordance
     in the KJV translated as open

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