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May Song

 

May time and mating time:  the croaking crew

of frogs demands an endless course of flies,

the flies breed wildly and the mullet rise:

the Chain of Being and the food chain too.

 

Spring's on the loose:  the shrill cicada feels

its pull, the dragonfly absorbs its rays.

A million voices cry, "More days!  More days!"

and heaven answers them, "No deals.  No deals."

 

Gail White

 

 

From The Price of Everything, The Edwin Mellen
Press, © 2001.  Originally printed in Edge City
Review
.  Reprinted by permission of the author.

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