Song of the Disenchanted Princess
You clammy Prince of frogs,
I’ll kiss you not, I swear!
I’d sooner kiss my clogs,
You clammy Prince of frogs!
I wish you wouldn’t stare,
You goggler of the bogs.
You clammy Prince of frogs!
I’ll kiss you not, I swear!
Author of Hyacinth for the Soul (Deerbrook Editions, 2009) and Light at Point Reyes (Shabda Press 2012), The Fourth Garden (forthcoming from Shabda Press 2015), as well as co-author of Peach Girl: Poems for a Chinese Daughter (Grayson 2002), Joan I. Siegel is a recipient of the New Letters Poetry Award and Anna Davidson Rosenberg Prize. A recent finalist for the Pablo Neruda Prize, she has published widely in journals and anthologies. Siegel lives with her husband and daughter in the lower Hudson Valley of New York State. Emerita Professor of English at SUNY/Orange, she volunteers at a local no-kill animal shelter, tends to nine rescued cats, and plants a summer garden and watches it grow.