Frog Shrouded

Is that what she actually said,
frog shrouded? Poetic for sure
but what is the necessary
specificity — medium-sized
leopard frogs, or large bullfrogs,
maybe tiny gray tree frogs,
a blockade crawling upwards with
hexagonal mucous-celled toes,
like small wind-up toys?

My hearing, well at three score and ten,
things do go awry. I’m sure of what
she said, but her mic echoed, and her
voice at eighty-two, is soft. Later, I laughed,
of course, she said fog shrouded.

Gary D. Grossman
Panoplyzine September 2024