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Chard deNiord
Poet Laureate of Vermont (2015-2019)
GROUSE CALL
Do si do and say hello
to drummin’ bird. Slow
it down then pick it up.
One and a half and let
her go. It’s right by right
by wrong you go. Turn
to your left and freeze
the doe. Promenade
to the field below.
It may be the last time,
I don’t know. Allemande
right with Mr. Crow.
You can’t go to heaven
when you carry on so.
Yellow rock, red rock,
oh by Joe. Dangle now
outside the know, tim’rous
beastie, beastie, O!
From Interstate, University of Pittsburgh Press
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