She ran each morning
to the puddly pond at the
end of the street
where tadpoles
flashed in the early
sun - deep black
commas punctuating
the water with
parenthetical expressions
until one morning
they were gone
leaving not even
one declarative sentence
of explanation
to the puddly pond at the
end of the street
where tadpoles
flashed in the early
sun - deep black
commas punctuating
the water with
parenthetical expressions
until one morning
they were gone
leaving not even
one declarative sentence
of explanation