A FLOCK OF WILD TURKEYS

by Tricia Knoll

You’d pull off the road for that,

wouldn’t you? Beside Pigeon River?

A flight of forty landing.

Thin and sleek, running.

Watch their heads bob

and thin legs pedal.

You’d forget news

of feathered nests

and overstuffed breasts.

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Tricia Knoll is an Oregon poet who has only seen one wild turkey in Oregon but many, many more in Vermont.