Stone Soup Croutons, 2-22-16, Peace Frog at Home

Stone Soup Croutons is a weekly poem I write using lines and impressions picked up from poems overheard from Stone Soup's open mic readers and features. I figure out a title either then or later. It's likely some of the poets I thank at the end won't even be able to figure out which lines were inspired by their work. To paraphrase Lorne Michaels, the poem doesn't go up because it's good; it goes up because it's Tuesday morning.

Last night, we had Noemi Paz. It was wonderful. Last night, I also had a breakthrough. Party due to the crowd, partly due to the return of Lee Litif to the open mic. It prompted me to create what may or may not be a recurring character. You had to be there, really.


Edit: "Peace Frog at Home" is available only from my first collection of Stone Soup Crouton poems, The Collapsed Bookshelf, available at Amazon.

Lee Litif is the bravest open micer, always taking the number one spot on the list.

Special Thanks to Lee Litif, Bill Barnum, Ashley Greaves, Surat Lozowick D. Ruf, Martha Boss, Abe Lateiner, Jonathan J. Joseph, Skoot, Reece Cotton, Caroline Suazo, Dexter Garcia, Chris Fitzgerald, Noemi Paz and DiDi Delgado.