Marbled Salamander

what does a salamander

think? oozing black smear of

body marbled with white

Ambystoma opacum is not

what’s on its mind, we peer

at bulging eyes, four- & five-

toed limbs, the top of a log is not

where a mole salamander

lives, a creature nothing like

a mole except it lives below

what are these tall shadowy

pulses of air? loud noises

that click & flow? what
triggers a salamander’s
belly & feet, empowers
its passage away from light

back to rich provender?