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# War and Geese
- URL: https://www.adamsowards.net/war-and-geese/
- Published: 2023-11-01T07:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-02-15T22:42:15.000Z
- Author: Adam M. Sowards
- Tags: essays, essay, publication, 2023, wild roof journal, snow geese, skagit, home, nature writing

"War and Geese," *Wild Roof Journal*, Issue 23 (November 2023): 47-52.

> It’s not just the brightness of feathers that alters the scene. The air moves as a solid. It shimmers, vibrates, shakes, as if the wings of the geese produce shock waves you can see. You can look through the team, the flock, because beating wings need space. And that? That is like looking through solid air.

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