A Small Green Frog

June 12 2006

Frogs live in shallow pools

with muddy bottoms, murky water

that grow stagnant and warm

in short hot summers.

They breath through their skin,

like a porous membrane

exposed to fetid air.

It’s as if the dark recesses of the inner body

were revealed

- a small green frog

hopping about the pond

turned inside-out.

He is a raw neuron of this fertile swamp,

flinching

with every molecule floating by,

susceptible

to the slightest change in weather.

Drifting in the fertile broth

a frog peeks-up,

lids clear, unflinching eyes.

Warm brown water

that seems to pass clear through him

as if he’d slipped inside.