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Bullfrogs

 

sipping a Schlitz
we cut off the legs,
packed them in ice, then
shucked the rest back into
the pond for turtles

ready to go home
we looked down and saw what we
had thrown back in:
quietbulging eyes nudging along
the moss’s edge, looking up at us,

asking for their legs

 

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