Golem in the Grass A toad in state of spread-leg, dried Demise, withered like some Discarded specimen, ingredient for rites or potions or Totemic animal embalmed beside Its pharaoh. It has significance, Lying embedded in our lawn, A hieroglyph, Part of a cartouche for families inhabiting this block, This island rock. The mouth gapes, Caught intoning some last gasp, The fingers claw. I nearly trod on it. Staring skyward under flapping clothes, The funerary pennants of a feudal lord, It brings into a grey suburban day The hint of other worlds and distant things. Rhinella Marina,…
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