a sunning frog taunts all predators to test their weight.
Frog Taunt [Senryū]
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The sweep of trees
forms a mandala.
The eye roams over it,
looking for a center
that doesn't exist.
Those roving eyes
rove & repeat:
caught in an
infinite loop.
And I wonder what hides
in the arc of trees?
What monsters mimic
the sinuous spine
of those pointy trees?
Whose eyes catch
the fine light,
reflecting back a
burning bright-yellow?
What lives unseen?
What flows unbidden?
What empties out,
but returns?
and returns?
and returns...

boats rise & roll
with constant motion; as
gentle waves lap ashore.

water smashes shore,
rising as foam then raining
back down as liquid.

white water churns
down the hillside into
a sprawling flood.