Tuesday, April 4, 2017

Everyday Events

A frog
Caught by the tread of a passing truck
Is left rotting in the road
Until a car
Crushes its frail body
Limbs strewn across the pavement
To be washed away
With the next rain
Unmarked in life
Even as in death
One less voice in the multitudes




Shadow Ocean
1997

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