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Tag: cicadas

Posted on July 10, 2012May 10, 2023 by Kay Foley — Leave a comment

A Tiny Break

A few hours’ break in the heat

flings windows open to birdsong

swooping swelling chorus of cicadas

chatter and hum of cricket and katydid

cheerful songs of summer missing from

our shuttered-up mechanically cooled houses

the challenge now being to somehow bring on the rain.

Category: Poems
Tags: cicadas, heat, rain

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