POETRY

Frog In My Throat

a poem

Emily Shell Gamage
1 min readMay 3, 2023

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(my photo)

Walking outside
into the warm caress
of spring air and birdsong.

Breaking the seal,
the apartment door burst
wide, to chirping and trills.

Sparkling sounds
of our intertwined lives —
notes glint in my ears

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