Blowing & Drifting

I'll chalk it up to global warming: the skies above Northfield are still full of Canada geese. A month ago, I'd have said they were migrating, but it's late enough in the season that they're probably year-rounders. Walking across campus earlier today, a flock of several hundred flew overhead, honking so loudly that I couldn't hear my companion talking. Airborne geese make a beautifully dissonant sound, a natural analog to an Ornette Coleman solo.