Return of a Childhood Friend - Balloon Frog

Return of a Childhood Friend

Balloon Frog (Tukak Bat-og)

Dr Abe V Rotor

Balloon Frog - Uperodon globulosus (U. systoma?)

I don't know your true name, and never did care

     ever since I was a child;

you were, as other kids on the farm, called you

     tukak bat-og - fat bellied;

our ways parted: I, to school, and you, to where

     fantasia had ended;

endangered almost to extinction, I was told;

     but down the river bed,

I found you like the Phoenix bird resurrected,

     where I dared not thread. ~