Cicada
Seventeen years
Since we saw you last
Emerging from your incubation
Your short life among us
A frenzy of flight
Buzzing in branches and crawling across cracks in sidewalks
Shedding skin and voracious and swarming through the hot summer
Before languishing and turning lazy
Your yellow eyes like topaz
And veined wings transparently leading
You to your destiny of
Gestation
Invasion and
Descension back
Into the earth
A cracked shell
is all that remains of
Your glorious dance among us
Since we saw you last
Emerging from your incubation
Your short life among us
A frenzy of flight
Buzzing in branches and crawling across cracks in sidewalks
Shedding skin and voracious and swarming through the hot summer
Before languishing and turning lazy
Your yellow eyes like topaz
And veined wings transparently leading
You to your destiny of
Gestation
Invasion and
Descension back
Into the earth
A cracked shell
is all that remains of
Your glorious dance among us
Copyright ©2004 Juliet Krassenstein & Jonathan Krassenstein
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