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Spring Peepers!

The song that owns the night

Deborah Barchi
Creatures
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Mar 25, 2021

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Image of spring peeper from Wikipedia Commons/public domain / U.S. Department of the Interior

On misty March evenings I wait for them:
the first timid notes and then a few more.
Tiny frogs tuning up their voices,
an ever-growing choir
holding practice out of doors.

By every brook and every pond
hidden in the shadows of the barely-budded trees,
numberless voices soar in crescendo;
the tireless chorus issues this decree:
We are back and with us comes the Spring!

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Deborah Barchi
Deborah Barchi

Written by Deborah Barchi

Deborah Barchi has recently retired from her career as a librarian and now has time to read, explore nature, and write poetry and essays.

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