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FROG by JAMES HARRISON

Poet Analysis

First Line: FIRST MEMORY / OF SWIMMING UNDERWATER
Last Line: AND CROAKING IN THE REEDS.
Subject(s): ANIMALS; AUTHORS & AUTHORSHIP; FROGS; POETRY & POETS;
First memory
of swimming underwater:
eggs of frogs hanging in diaphanous clumps
from green lily pad stems;
at night in the tent I heard
the father of it all booming
and croaking in the reeds.



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