Goose vs. Duck
They got their brave shoes on
for the first time this year
wobbling out of the water
white and black necks
stretching over the steps
to peer across the green expanse
only to be greeted by my
shoos, claps, and shouts of GO AWAY!
Five minutes later
waddling across the sands
bobbing brown and green heads
as they make their way
towards a green lunch
they stare and look
I rise and greet
with pictures and words of
Oh how sweet!
Now shouldn’t someone cry foul – or fowl?
Throughout the month of March I will be participating in the Slice of Life Story Challenge with the community of writers over at Two Writing Teachers. Each day I will post a draft of a story detailing a small snippet from my life. This will be my sixth year participating, and each year I marvel at all the small moments I would have missed in my life if not for this challenge. I am grateful to Stacey Shubitz, Betsy Hubbard, Beth Moore, Kathleen Neagle Sokolowski, Melanie Meehan, and Amy Ellerman for hosting this wonderful event!
iblessings 
Poor things. I do love birds, but what a nuisance waterfowl can be! Messy and fowl (hah!) tempered! Great poetic slice!
Thanks Christie. I definitely discriminate among the birds. My gate to keep the geese away will need to be put up this week! Scooping droppings is not my thing!
I would cry foul if I had to clean up after the fowl!
Thanks for sharing this story of your feathered friends.
It is always fun to read about ducks! I liked your line “to peer across the green expanse”. I went to the blog for inspiration to write, and I read your post feeling inspired! Thank you.
This has me curious about your past experiences with geese and ducks. Clever ending!
All I can say is geese tend to leave a package for me to clean up – or several packages!
Oh. Got it!
Oh the geese…they are pests. I like how you wrote they got their brave shoes on and how they wobbled out of the water only to be greeted by GO AWAY. It actually made me laugh wondering what, if, the geese would say back.
Oh they talk back and have hissed at me before!