by Margaret Rozga
walk along the beach
Waves touch and retreat beneath
circle of squawking gulls
One
running start
spreads wings glides high
Morning promises
Silent geese upon the hill—
Why do we see them only now?
One
steps forward
eyes the flock eyes
my approach
and yours
Gulls voiceless ascending
riffs of geese flying formation
lead rotate lead rotate
I cannot miss them such noise
You can such silence
Margaret Rozga has published four books of poetry, including Pestiferous Questions: A Life in Poems (Lit Fest Press 2017), written with the help of a creative writing fellowship at the American Antiquarian Society. Her current project is a series of Alice in Wonderland themed poems. She serves as current Wisconsin Poet Laureate and in that role is working to encourage conversations about poems we love.
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