{"id":94,"date":"2005-08-28T17:09:17","date_gmt":"2005-08-29T00:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/2005\/08\/28\/94\/"},"modified":"2024-07-20T10:19:03","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T17:19:03","slug":"94","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/94\/","title":{"rendered":"A Cicada Poem from David Granville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cicada Songs   (for &#8220;Cicada Mania&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>They say your songs<br \/>\nportend the end of summer<br \/>\njust as chirping robins<br \/>\nusher in the spring air.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the sound<br \/>\nwhirring, buzzing through<br \/>\nleaves of trees that shelter<br \/>\nthe thrumming brood.<\/p>\n<p>Insect monks chant<br \/>\nhymns of nature<br \/>\nfor us and for<br \/>\ntheir silent females: &#8220;mate her.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>More musical than electric currents<br \/>\nthat hum along power lines,<br \/>\nyour symphony hovers,<br \/>\nguarding the sultry night like armored palatines.<\/p>\n<p>Constant and pervasive,<br \/>\nwe humans sometimes hear<br \/>\nsometimes ban your frequencies,<br \/>\nlulled to sleep by drums so dear.<\/p>\n<p>Air conditioners and headphones<br \/>\ndrown out your beautiful noise<br \/>\nbut others sing with you<br \/>\ntill Fall&#8217;s frost steals these little joys.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t-DFG<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cicada Songs (for &#8220;Cicada Mania&#8221;) They say your songs portend the end of summer just as chirping robins usher in the spring air. Listen to the sound whirring, buzzing through leaves of trees that shelter the thrumming brood. Insect monks chant hymns of nature for us and for their silent females: &#8220;mate her.&#8221; More musical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[677],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}