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[reaschild]

This
all too brilliant light
overcome by cicada song
and the sudden summer heat
Asks me
for night
for a little easy rest
and Dreams
grown like posies
fragrant and vivid and peaceful

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[1_big_grizz]

overcome by cicada song

I was scrolling back through posts and came across this line. It brought back a flood of memories.
I was backpacking through the mountains of southwest Virginia during the 1995 cicada hatching, and "overcome" is such a perfect word. There are long-distance backpackers who, to this day, have nervous twitches because of June, 1995.