Allison Funk is the author of six poetry collections, including Wonder Rooms and The Visible Woman. Educated at and Columbia University, she is a professor emerita at Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville, Illinois, where she lives.

Springtime

by Allison Funk

Yesterday, walking, I heard a chorus of frogs

Seldom seen except in the spring,

The time they unearth their hungry bodies

For love amid congregations of cardinals

And red-winged blackbirds in the highest

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