FROGGIE BOTTOMS
2008
Seoul
Mrs
Magpie
steps in
--pokes
“a polliwog!
Yum!”
Polliwog
wiggles up
sucks
and grows
around
your eyes
Soft
Sambos
paddle
along shore
serenely
waving tails
so many
polliwogs
paddle
clock-wise
“Our huge family”
Cupped in palm
one plays dead
Set on surface,
Jiggles down
See--
Miss Polly
dines on
a cherry
blossom
Polliwogs
nibble petals
of beautiful
Yellow Flags
Cute --
they would
chew me, too
if they could
Pond shrunk
Into a puddle
--surviving
polliwogs pray
--Ed Baker
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