{"product_id":"2940013876583","title":"Goose Lake, A Year in the Life of a Lake","description":"Living on a lake has its privileges. I watch the sun come up across the water each morning and look out dozens of times each day to see what’s going on. I’m never disappointed. My endless fascination with life around the lake will be apparent when you read GOOSE LAKE, my first poetry collection published as an eBook.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book begins . . . \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAugust 4, 1989\u003cbr\u003eMeeting Our Neighbors\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs I stooped in my driveway for the morning paper, a delegation of geese hissing like punctured tires flat-footed it toward me across the grass. This was not a social call. My new house squatting on their land beside their lake was an outrage. Indignant to their pinfeathers the geese closed ranks and delivered their ultimatum in a furious chorus.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBills hard as chisels,\u003cbr\u003etails aquiver,\u003cbr\u003enecks recoiling like missile launchers\u003cbr\u003efiring off fierce glares\u003cbr\u003ethe posse bristles pigeon-toed\u003cbr\u003eto enforce goose law: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTrespassers\u003cbr\u003ewill be hissed  \u003cbr\u003euntil\u003cbr\u003ethey learn their lesson.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOver time we humans near the lake have made peace with the geese which, on a busy day, outnumber us twenty to one. Our key concession is to their occasional messy forays into our yards. These Canadians don’t know about their ancestors, those hardy enforcers of goose law that established goose rights in the neighborhood. It’s always hardest for the pioneers. The lake lacks an official name but I call it Goose Lake. It seems fair.","brand":"David L. Harrison","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47152696164592,"sku":"2940013876583","price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013876583_p0.jpg?v=1763596463","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013876583","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}