Wednesday, December 18, 2019

Mighty Rocky Road to Canaan

Rocky road.
I’m lying in the wagon bed
with a broken leg.
Ugly toad—
toads are ugly, it is said.
Rocky road:
There was one toad named
Rocky, and another named Little
Guy. My leg feels better when I think of the third
toad, named Squeaker (Laugh-Out-Loud!).
Old Aunt Dinah made us
release Squeaker onto the rocky road.
A second later we couldn't find
Squeaker anymore—faded
into the gravel. That toad had nice legs,
too, born to perform on stage.
I worshipfully adore a toad,
vanished on the rocky road,
with cocked rattletrap legs.