Spring Peepers
March and their pearly tender throats groan
with the weight of drifted silence, warming
to the ticklish work of wriggling free 
crescendos of lust a frozen lozenge
thawing on the tips of sluggish torqued tongues
primed to stab frenzied clouds of
damselflies 
oscillating low over the teeming 
black water, turning for just a moment  
away from the churlish cacophony 
to consider my clumsy mid-winter 
tattoo on the frozen thrumming drum head 
of the pond, a croak of indignation  
against my boorish wallow over thin
ice spidering outward from my snow shoes.
 
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