Sand Hill’s
again in Indiana,
view was only from hidden blinds.
Their grace, their courtship dance
held us in awe.
Township birds
elongated and aerodynamic
pass close, very close.
Glide just above tasseled corn,
our pleasant surprise
Trees blind
their modulated wing strokes.
This pair for life, reappear
descend on Tom Sutter’s
golden wheat stubble.
Sand Hill’s are gleaners.
Palmer R. Haynes
© August, 2015
Photos by Catherine Haynes, taken at the Audubon crane blind on the Platte River in 2009