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Wild geese poem resonates with readers of New Writing Scotland

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 widely online. The verse describes a speaker halted on a doorstep, holding groceries and watching wild geese fly south in near darkness, longing for answers that never come. Readers are quoting its closing image of migration, displacement and a "not-quite home," finding it an unexpectedly fitting expression of restlessness and belonging.

Why now: The poem's imagery of migration and unbelonging strikes a chord amid ongoing debates about immigration and displacement.

Susan MansfieldNew Writing ScotlandAssociation for Scottish Literary Studies

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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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