So many things
A mother can’t explain—
how a toad
gets down a wire
into a birdhouse,
why it wants
to be there and
about the one
pale blue egg
that falls, too,
onto the dry
August grass.
So many things
A mother can’t explain—
how a toad
gets down a wire
into a birdhouse,
why it wants
to be there and
about the one
pale blue egg
that falls, too,
onto the dry
August grass.