running a stick
across the slats ?
spring peepers
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Jennifer Burd
Jennifer Burd has had poetry published in a variety of print and online journals, including Beloit Poetry Journal, Acorn, and Modern Haiku. She placed as a semifinalist in the World Monument Fund's 2012 haiku contest and tied for second place in Bluestem literary magazine's 2012 postcard poetry contest. She is the author of a book of poems, Body and Echo, and a book of creative nonfiction, Daily Bread: A Portrait of Homeless Men & Women of Lenawee County, Michigan. She works as an editor and writer for HighScope Educational Research Foundation in Ypsilanti, Michigan. View all posts by Jennifer Burd
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Ah, pinkletinks aka Spring peepers are nocturnal carnivores, emerging at night to feed primarily on small invertebrates, such as beetles, ants, flies, and spiders.
Someone thinks they should be awake, perhaps a child.
warmest regards,
Alan
I like this one! So much room for my mind to wander. :)
Wow – spring peepers are frogs! We mustn't get them here in Ireland. I thought perhaps they were a type of flower that only opened in sunlight and I imagined a child running a stick along a fence to make them open (waken) up!
Now I imagine these are the slats of a bridge across a little stream and the child is trying to making noise so the frogs will show themselves. Cute haiku. :)
marion
Probably the Spring sounding the alarm for Summer to awaken.