epilepticgalahad: thepastisaroadmap: exhaled-spirals: Lisel Mueller, “Cicadas” in Depend
epilepticgalahad: thepastisaroadmap: exhaled-spirals: Lisel Mueller, “Cicadas” in Dependencies (1965) [Image description: black text on a white background. Transcript follows. CICADAS Always in unison, they are / the rapt voice of silence, so singleminded I cannot tell / if the sound is rich or thin, cannot tell even if it is sound / the high, sustained note which gives to a summer field / involved with the field at noon a stillness as palpable / as smoke and mildew know only: when they are gone / one scrubbed autumn day after the clean sweep / of the bright, acrid season what remains is a clearing of rest / of balance and attention but not the second skin / hot and close, of silence. End image description] @consumptive-sphinx -- source link