Land
After Szervanszky’s Wind Quintet, No. 1
breath pours
into bassoon body
purrs mountain maple
sixteenth note swirls
soar blueward
brass crackles in sunshine
cattails’
muddy roots
clarinet shadows
darken forest duff
mist
hugs lowlands—
evening
About the Poet: Peggy Turnbull’s most recent work is forthcoming or published in Soul-Lit, Plum Tree Tavern, Postcard Poems & Prose, Three Line Poetry, and New Verse News. She is a member of the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets.
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