Blue Crickets and Tree Frogs

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    Blue Crickets and Tree Frogs

    I step out this morning
    the mountains are gone
    low clouds
    slate and pink and gold
    rise up from the meadows
    where the Flatirons stood
    only last night

    A chirping in the Ponderosa
    sounded like a tree frog
    crazy, but the air flashed
    humid and smelled of Oleander
    my lips, whistling for Coda
    tasted of salt

    And I knew it couldn't be the sea
    watching my little read husky
    roll in a skiff of snow
    elated, under the pines

    It was a bird or an insect
    whose name I don't recall
    ceying into the night
    perhaps
    Dreaming of the sea

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    In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.

    Franz Kafka (1883-1924) Czech writer.

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