Frogs That Sing and Others
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Frogs That Sing And Others
The words are pine, cypress,
oak, red-shouldered hawk, ibis,
snowy egret, bluebird, clover,
beetles, more beetles of every
color and size, great egret,
bees, humans, ants, turtles,
frogs that sing in the night,
deer, dogs, rats, cats. Who
is more important than who?
And who can answer?
Little Tommy Tucker
Sings for his supper.
And the ibis eats its way around
the pond. A tiny frog catches
a tiny fly. An ibis eats the frog.
Oh sorrow.
And Oh sweetness
as a yellow butterfly flutters
among us.
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We and all other animals are closer to each other than we usually think.
About the Author
Joan McIntosh graduated from Beloit College and has a master’s degree in botany from the University of Wisconsin. She was head of the science program at a private school in South Bend, Indiana, before retiring in order to have more time to write.
Her poetry has been published in South Dakota Review, Indiannual, Shenandoah, Connecticut River Review, Cumberland Review, and others. She has given readingsat the Noontime Series of the Folger ShakespeareLibrary in Washington, DC; the Naptown InvitationalReading Series at the Indianapolis Museum of Art; and atmany schools, churches, and bookstores.
Joan was one of twenty poets selected for a two-week workshop in Critz Virginia sponsored by Wake Forest University and Reynolds Tobacco. In February of 2006, Garrison Keillor read her poem “Reading History a Year at a Time” on his Writer’s Almanac radio program.