Ted Jean

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Ecclesiastes

let’s say you’ve had wine
at the open window

darkness and the air
their certain assertion

you become aware
of frog song on every hand

the pond you know
and those you don’t, the ditches

the chorus seems to celebrate
that night is day

that sex and insect
delectation are sufficient

a fool amphibian argument
possibly persuasive

A carpenter, Ted Jean writes, paints, plays tennis with Amy Lee. His work appears in 32 Poems, Beloit Poetry Journal, PANK, DIAGRAM, North American Review, Blue Earth Review, dozens of other publications.