Vernal Musings

Vernal Musings

A hundred thousand million galaxies

in motley clusters rapidly receding

from one another — like a bunch of bees

repelled by tainted nectar they’d been eating —

is a sure sign the cosmos is inflating,

as is the vocal structure of the frog

now calling out across the water, waiting,

as patient as the shadows in this bog.

With every croak, his throat must grow then shrink.

But will that happen to the universe?

Well, you can speculate and muse and think

and theorize and wonder and immerse

your thoughts in such abstract considerations

while I sit listening to frog vibrations.

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(First published in The New Verse News.)