Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, FROG, by JAMES HARRISON


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First Line: First memory / of swimming underwater
Last Line: And croaking in the reeds.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Animals; Authors & Authorship; Frogs; Poetry & Poets


First memory
of swimming underwater:
eggs of frogs hanging in diaphanous clumps
from green lily pad stems;
at night in the tent I heard
the father of it all booming
and croaking in the reeds.





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