Goose Horn

A flock of geese were flying overhead this morning and it occurred to me that the honking of a goose sounds like a bicycle horn.

I'm taking about the kind of horn you see on the tricycles of four and five year old children. The sparkling plastic horn with a big rubber ball on one end.

Squeezing the ball produces a loud, flat noise that passersby can't help but react too.

And so it is with geese. When that loud, flat honking sounds overhead we can't help but look up.

Only this morning I am picturing two dozen five year olds pedaling furiously across the sky like the Wicked Witch of the East - and frantically squeezing the rubber bulbs of their horns.