What It Is About the Frog
   for Colleen Lerman











That induces her
To kiss him?  Well,
He has plenty












Of froggy
Appeal - that
Isn't it, though.  What













Is he thinking that he
Gazes so?  He has
Lived for













Who knows how long
In that pond, flawlessly
Sexual.  There's a pure













Feeling in the lines
Of his posture.  She feels this
And the day













Is suddenly lush.  Still,
It's unusual and her gaze is not
Like his.  He











Knows.  She
Is taken by him.  What
He knows












Is how urgent it all is
That she yield to the green
Comedy.  It's all in the way he












Looks at her face so
Steadily touching her
Elsewhere.









- Vicki Hearne _In the Absence of Horses_