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Ceramic Frogs Copulate in New Mexico

Roger Cowin

Dime-store souvenirs
prominently displayed
on a glass shelf,
a pair of ceramic frogs endowed
with perfectly rendered representations
of human genitalia, male and female.

If they were to ever copulate
the world would be overrun
by ceramic tadpoles.

“We picked them up in New Mexico,”
the genial hostess explains, amused
at my mixed expression of fascination
and disgust.
An odd sort of memento.
Has New Mexico become infested
with swarms of ceramic frogs?
Genetic mutations brought on by
A-bomb testing in the 50’s.

I am determined, more than ever,
to never visit the West. That vast
empty landscape and blank canvas
upon which any black history can be written,
terrify me.
I need trees, the intimacy of small towns
every few miles. Though, I expect,
even in the middle of the Mojave
there’s a fast food franchise
with shimmering golden arches,
and a super-department store
with shelves lined with row after row
of ceramic frogs.



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