Thursday, November 30, 2017

Jeremy Seligson writes



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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