Arthur, I am not inclined to agree with Sally-ee that
there are two poems here.  As i see it the integrating
factor is that the frogs come to the writer's rescue
by consuming the pestilential insects. I rather tend
to agree with Sally-ee, however, that the poem could
be shortened and I would do that in the stanzas about
the insects.  I agree with Sue Scalf about the beauty
of the description of the frogs.
I think you really communicate the feeling of panic
one can experience at becoming a pincushion for
feeding insects.
I'm hoping to see the frog-spawn in my pond soon.
cheers, cara --- Arthur <[log in to unmask]>
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> A Hatching.
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>
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> I sit in a globe of golden light
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> sweat and write letters home.
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> Tickle on my neck.
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> I swat. Swat again.
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> Write and swat.
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>
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> A swarm of something winged
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> pestilent biting things.
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> My room is filled with them.
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>
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> With gasps of terror
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> I see the long
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> unsleeping hours of torment
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> stretch to a distant dawn
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>
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> I swat in a frenzied assault.
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> Spilled and obliterated life surrounds me
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> legs and wings, spurts of bright juices
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> but their numbers
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> are undiminished and assail.
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>
>
> I realise
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> the lamp has summoned them
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> through a careless open door.
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>
>
> Out on the veranda,
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> they swirl about the lamp,
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> tink and chime on sooty glass.
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>
>
> Sudden
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> on the banks of the pool of light
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> where night and the swarming bush begins
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> lumps of darkness detach and lurch
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> heavy throbs of life,
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> that pulse and belch.
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>
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> Frogs, glisten like gilded mud
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> in the golden pool,
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> cumbersome as rocks they come.
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> With lightning tongues and bulging eyes
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> they snare and catch,
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> swallow with delicious gulps.
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>
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> None remain,
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> the swarm's consumed
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> Lumpen, bloated, the frogs resume
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> dissolve back into the night and humming bush.
>

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