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Author:
Maria Tabor
Author URL: mariatabor.com
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La Rana (The Toad)
I sit on a boulder in the Trinity River and make peace with my fear of the bear. I will leave it here with the tadpoles around my ankles, speckled stones, tall grass and the toad's eyes just above the surface.
I will try to sit in stillness like that toad and watch water rush over fallen firs,
duck my head to avoid a swallowtail flying into me. One eye is on a garter snake swimming S's and the other on a lizard beneath the coolness of a redwood shadow.
There are greater fears out there, a parent's death, a The river deafens all sounds save the truth of rapids, the croak of a toad, the splash of a foot.
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