Thursday, January 9, 2014

27 Frogs

Twenty-seven different kinds of frogs
I doubt the song matches the picture,
but I recorded this a few minutes ago outside:
https://soundcloud.com/ellen-
pendergraft-gillette/frog/s-bQEu1
call Florida their home, and
quite a few of them are singing
outside now, excited by the recent
rainfall flooding roads and filling ditches,
choral outcry underneath a starless sky.
Or maybe they aren't singing songs
about the rain at all. Maybe something
else entirely, froggie gossip or political
debate, the pros and cons of that new
skeeter diet, long involved soliloquoys
describing in great detail unrequited
love. I am betting on the opposite:
a hundred horny toads (full pun intended)
in a water orgy right beyond my
window. Love is in the air.



(c) Ellen Gillette, 2014

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