i held in my sneeze
looking up into the sun
to catch the geese
Looking up into the sun makes me sneeze.
Yesterday, on the way home, the unmistakable sounds of geese overhead made me stop and look up at the sky. The glare of the sun was strong….made me want to sneeze….I couldn’t see the geese but kept clicking the camera anyway.
For me, there’s something special about geese in flight, with their loud honking sounds way up in the air and their flying formations all together. I always stop and look up….and watch. I don’t know why but it makes me think of home. My mother grew up in Prague. She once told me that during the war, at the warning sound of sirens, her job was to carry the family’s goose down into the air raid shelter.
