frogs or toads alongside the roads

(click title for fun frog facts!)

driving to Marshall
on a warm spring eve
sun setting behind us
reflecting off
the little strip
of grainy asphalt
worn smooth
called county highway TT
(Simon and I call it the Pi-way)

elevated a few feet
along gravely ditches
above unplowed cornfields,
grassy lowlands,
reedy wetlands

windows open
windy as we pass
temporary ponds
laid across the freshly
exposed farmland
snow blanket disappeared

breezes
toss in
something
wonderful

strange
cranking
noises fill
our twilight interior

chirping
in cycles
like a wind-up toy
clockwork
unseen

tigers
and leopards
dating
hope to be mating

it's getting late
otherwise I'd stop
and listen
to that surround

let it resonate
around
my cochlea
and tympanic

intense
hypnotic
mechaníc


(these little videos are from this website: http://www.midwestfrogs.com/ go there -- it's cool!)