What time do the
peepers go to sleep?
When I woke before
light,
they were settling
down for the night.
and I wondered
did they say everything
that they needed to say?
did the correct
messages arrive
at their intended
recipients?
and how,
if they sleep all
day,
do they have so
much more to say
the next night?
Are they
a congress of
frogs,
all talking at
once,
never listening to
each other?
Is it a chorus,
all singing their
parts,
and each part is
the same?
Are they trying to
tell us
to get off of their
planet
and stop polluting
the air
that they breathe
through their skins?
To stop poisoning
our yards
with run off into
their watery homes?
Their voices
reassure me
every spring,
but I never know
what they are
saying.
T.
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