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The Compliment
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Peggy Trojan


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My mother tried
to make everyone she met
feel a little better
when she left
more interested in them
than anything she had
to share
though she was herself
interesting
years after she died
a young man with kids
wrote to say
she was the only one
who ever told him
he had nice hair


From Everyday Love (2014).
Used here with permission.


Peggy Trojan, after a career of teaching English, retired to the north woods of Wisconsin. There, she and her husband, David, with the help of family, built a house next to a trout stream. Peggy stays busy writing and making jam from the raspberry patch she carefully and lovingly tends. Peggy is a member of the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets, and is the author of two full-length poetry collections and six chapbooks. Learn more about her here.

               

 

 

 


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