The beach isn't going
to come all by itself,
but the sieves
and the moccasins
and the soda pop
freezers might snare
might lead
to souvenirs from Australia
just as much
as forty
might come by itself.
No, I am not self-sealing.
Yes, maybe Mother Nature
does resemble D.
No, I will not wish
I had written
a poem by Dean Young.
I will acknowledge
that a neighbor I once had
had frogs the size of fingernails
and goats off the roundabout.
