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i can hear spring
Just around the time when most of the snow has melted, spring comes honking back to my home in Spencerville, Ontario. It comes loudly. Canada geese don’t care if you’re sleeping or if you’re eating breakfast—they honk like crazy!The sound is a whisper at first: honk, honk, honk, coming from the south. Then I see tiny dots, way up high. Their calls get louder: honk, honk, honk!The dots form the letter V, moving quickly toward me in the blue sky. There are many geese flying in that V shape. The one at the front has the hardest job. When he gets tired, he moves back and another one takes a turn being the leader. They are even louder now: honk, honk, honk! The geese fly right over me. I…