Sunday, May 17, 2020

Fahrenheit, Celsius, and a Non-Sequitur Tree Frog - poem

Lawrence Hall
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poeticdrivel.blogspot.com

Fahrenheit, Celsius, and a Non-Sequitur Tree Frog

To ask what the temperature is today
Is too ask how high is up or low is down
For one must read what a red pointer says
In the arc of a circle or a line in a tube

The only true measures of temperature
Are sweating and shivering and just right
Those measures are of childhood and old age:
Sitting under an oak and reading in peace

A tree frog lives in the plastic rain gauge
When the rain falls he moves out ‘til it’s over

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