Happy Lexington Poetry Month! I have signed up once more for the LexPoMo challenge, a wonderful community of people who gather online to write and share poetry for this brief month. Here’s a link to my first poem: https://lexpomo.com/poem/cicada-on-my-shoulder/
I wrote the poem (and am writing now) from our back porch, where the cicada singing is averaging 85.2 dB. I’m wearing earplugs, as prolonged exposure above 70 dB inflicts hearing loss. I don’t want to go overboard out of deference to the arthropod-squeamish, so here are just a few recent photos:
Signing off from Cicada Central…
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