am I not?

in stark black lines on white
the cane toad
     with lumps and warts drawn as rounds and discs
     inked eyes
     a curve as a hint of tongue
comes out of the night
with its croak: am I not?
     am I not, too,
     made for some
     place?

First published in Westerly

Published in the Fremantle Press Anthology of Western Australian Poetry

From lemon oil

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