Frog 4/Eating the Frog

Clearstories

24.5×24 in

Archival Inkjet Print

2014

$1,750/set unframed

Eating the Frog by Naila Moreira

A lot like the popular Mark Twain-inspired hack called
“Eating the frog,” [the method] suggests tackling that
thing you’d rather do at the end of the day, at the beginning…
However, the frog is never a meaningless errand or
tedious office task. It’s a significant, high-impact item, and
by getting it done, you will feel more fulfilled. —Lila MacLellan

Shamaness
with a headdress
of frogs,

she does not kiss
but swallows whole—
the shapeshifter.

Each silver-green
gem to burn
a hole in the belly

sparks emerald fire
atop each golden ball.
Donning their

unlikely shapes
for power, for survival,
this is Charybdis,

the great whirlpool,
vernal
but evergreen,

tiny on this earth
but universal,
maker of life,

of vengeance as life,
girl so high, moss, tree, a child,
frog as whirl

frog as world