In Deliverance, James Dickey described the cicada's song as something like "an in and out subsiding of silence." I read that the ascending-descending chorus confuses birds who would prey on the cicadas. It offsets their "radar." Cicadas are my favorite sound of summer closely followed by katydids and the distant roll of thunder.
I love that quote by James Dickey. I remember when he was poet in residence and taught at USC.
The song of the cicadas calls forth emotions too deep for words, and their mesmerizing droning sound speaks to me in unspoken ways of every past summer I’ve lived on this earth.
In Deliverance, James Dickey described the cicada's song as something like "an in and out subsiding of silence." I read that the ascending-descending chorus confuses birds who would prey on the cicadas. It offsets their "radar." Cicadas are my favorite sound of summer closely followed by katydids and the distant roll of thunder.
I love that quote by James Dickey. I remember when he was poet in residence and taught at USC.
The song of the cicadas calls forth emotions too deep for words, and their mesmerizing droning sound speaks to me in unspoken ways of every past summer I’ve lived on this earth.
I never tire of the cicadas.