"Monster Duck, Glowing Bull, One Eyed Frog"

This is a poem that was first published about a year ago (October 10th, 2008) at Word Slaw (an online literary journal; that's the best kind of lit journal, you know.) It was inspired by the little toys that I have on my dashboard in the car.


"Monster Duck, Glowing Bull, and One Eyed Frog"

"Our sky is cracked"
said tiny Glowing Bull
who is always looking up

"Meteor bombardment"
said One Eyed Frog
willing to speculate

From his hanging prison
Monster Duck laughed
coldly
and clicked his beak
full of pointy teeth

"Now I see a red bloom in the heavens"
said Glowing Bull

"I can't spy it"
said One Eyed Frog
squinting his one good eye
"but it may be a sattelite"

Monster Duck gnawed his bars
as he watched the astronomers
and dangled in his cage

"And now I recognize a golden chain
wrapping around itself"
said Glowing Bull

"Ah yes, the links of eternity"
hummed One Eyed Frog
closing his one eye
to peer better inward

Monster Duck snarled in his cage
then spoke
"You do not glow, Glowing Bull
You refract
The source of your light is external"

Glowing Bull could not look down
even far enough to see Monster Duck's cage
hanging above the abyss

"What does he mean, my friend?"
Glowing Bull asked One Eyed Frog

One Eyed Frog flexed his flippers
but would not speculate