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# Margin
- URL: https://www.fsm.ink/margin/
- Published: 2023-08-23T15:19:30.000Z
- Updated: 2026-06-03T18:31:40.000Z
- Author: Staff
- Tags: Poetry, #Import 2026-08-03 09:59

*by Meredith Mason*

Two inches of murky water  
In the ditch behind the ball park  
Where second sons and middle daughters Investigate the rusted dark

mouth of a tunnel where frogs blink in a scrap of leaf-rot water.  
The kids don’t seem to mind the stink Or notice the slime or litter.

While the crowd cheers on a batter, A 1st-grader quiets beside  
An oil-slicked trickle of water, Slowly, silently tries to slide

A hand beneath slippery quick Frog belly like this place matters, And the memory that will stick: This margin of muddy water.