Friday, September 18, 2009

V:044 crickets on my mind




- an annual tradition: fretting over indoor crickets -

autumn equinox –
awakening
to summer’s last cricket

. . . Nisqually Delta Review (summer/fall issue 2006; Editor’s Choice)

breakfast alone
except for that cricket
behind the fridge

.. The Heron’s Nest (Vol. X, No. 4, December 2008)

from the shower
a sad love song -
bathtub cricket


clearing out
spider webs –
again, I spare the cricket



something I said?
the cricket’s
gone, too


bathtub cricket,
where do you go
while I shower?

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . previously seen at f/k/a (2005 - 2008)

p.s. "Frasier" used a gecko to take care of his
cricket problem. Roberta Beary consulted the
Washington Post's John Kelly and suggests duct tape.

Click to visualize the cricket lifecycle, and for a
printer-friendly cricket to color. To learn about
the cricket song and its mythology, head to an
informative piece at Wikipedia.

2 Comments:

At October 05, 2009 2:26 PM, Blogger Emma Dalloway said...

this is hilarious...

 
At October 08, 2009 8:09 AM, Blogger david giacalone said...

Hi, Dalloway. Thanks. Sorry it took me so long to see you had left a comment.

I hope you're enjoying your move into Spring, as we face dying leaves and emigrant crickets.

 

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