bafflement and puzzlement

ZOLTAN TOTH

putah creek is alive with the sounds 

of rather small beings this noise 

is pleasant and light like the sounds 

when you take the wrapping paper 

from a present a frog croaks 

a woodpecker taps a heron wades 

and makes tiny splashes I skip a rock 

across the surface of the water 

and the creek watches this 

with the eyes of a mother  keeping track of …