<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=560704" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>La Rana (The Frog)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I sit on a boulder in the Trinity River and make peace with my fear<br>of the bear. I will leave it here with the tadpoles around my ankles, <br>speckled stones, tall grass and the frog’s eyes just above the surface.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I will try to sit in stillness like that frog and watch water rush over fallen firs, <br>duck my head to avoid a swallowtail flying into me. One eye<br>is on a garter snake swimming S’s and the other on a lizard</div><div style="margin:10px 0">beneath the coolness of a redwood shadow. There are greater<br>fears out there, a parent’s death, a terrorist’s threat. The river deafens<br>all sounds save the truth of rapids, the croak of a frog, the splash of a foot.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Maria Garcia Teutsch</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Maria+Garcia+Teutsch">Maria Garcia Teutsch</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=560704" data-title="La Rana (The Frog) de Maria Garcia Teutsch" data-description="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 frog’s eyes just above the surface. I will try to sit in stillness li..."></div> </div> </div>

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