Immersed in studying
the brain, dissecting
it, like a frog thinking
about being a frog, ribbits echoing
from ribbit centers in the left temporal
amphibial lobe while we cut
away layers of cortex — undulated
brain skin — over white
glial — ribbit — cells to uncover
with sharp and gentle
scalpels the limbic
drama, the hippocampal memory,
the internal lily pad system of myelinated
pathways searching with flicking
tongues for the essential
froginess of our own
warty natures.