Notch-tailed cadets take turns in the traffic pattern without benefit of control tower, sweeping downwind, shouldering baseleg, gliding into low approach, dipping, diving under a graveled bridge along Old Creamery Road, emerging upwind, into a steep Immelmann turn against a peach and mauve glow on a September evening, chattering and fluttering afresh into the traffic pattern of young barn swallows, dark above a flash of rosy tan, crosswind, downwind, for yet another spin. (2006)