death of a naturalist

• the fattening dots burst, into nimble/ swimming tadpoles
• then one hot day
• the great slime kings
• the flax dam festered
• bubbles gargled delicately
• bluebottles/ wove a strong gauze of sound around the smell
• the warm, thick slobber/ of frogspawn that grew like clotted water
• angry frogs/ invaded
• poised like mud grenades
• context

  irish poet, 4yo brother died in a car accident when he was young - affected him badly so many poems about loss of innocence and his upbringing, grew up on a farm