Saturday, February 21, 2015

A bullfrog in a storm drain



In channels clogged with compose
under the steel-fit manhole,
a bullfrog groans bass tone moans.

Caught in last night's downpour
while out on the garden lawn,
he went with the 
 water           
                       

-- because that's all he knows
       from days of being a tadpole
before he grew legs
and things
            
                       got complicated --

went with the flow,

          and all the leaves
     that fell in heaps
    
went with him....

In channels clogged with compose
under the steel-fit manhole,
a stranded bullfrog longs
      for another great rain storm.


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A repost from 2012 NaPoWriMo.

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