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| Issue 22: | 4 Feb. 2024 |
| Poem: | 100 words |
By Ann Fisher
What Frogs Know
tonight the bullfrogs carry on in the pond— don’t they understand about wildfires? everyone notices the blood-red moon above their jocular croaking I can’t help myself— I notice flames in everything now hardly an orchid crosses my path without outlining the veins of violence searing red into the pale pink delicacy silence in the hollows a too-short ending rivers spring downhill from graves where everything but water forced souls hard into earth frogs, too, can worry me the less of them equaling a disaster greater than us all wrapped around bloated calls and this beautiful burning moon
Ann Fisher
lives in the foothills of the Green Mountains, though she is not the first, nor the last, to call this land home. She is the fiction co-editor for Mud Season Review based in Burlington, Vermont. Ann’s poetry and prose have appeared in About Place Journal, Plainsongs, Samjoko Magazine, The South Shore Review, and Zig Zag Lit Mag, among others. Her microfiction “Illusions” was a semi-finalist in the Magician Ekphrastic Writing Challenge at MacQueen’s Quinterly.
Author’s website: www.annfishervt.com
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