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In September
Margaret Rozga
as I walk down hill
to Scuppernong Creek
a single syllable jrchp
then bounce of a branch
in the path-side thicket.
A lone bird in the bush
quiets my desire
to have one in hand.
Margaret Rozga served as the 2019-2020 Wisconsin Poet Laureate and the 2021 inaugural artist/scholar in residence at the UW Milwaukee at Waukesha Field Station. Her fifth book is Holding My Selves Together: New and Selected Poems (Cornerstone Press 2021).
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