Cicada Feet - v1

High in the trees
After subterranean slumber
Your song exalts
Summer heat

I found you
By the path
Underfoot
Alone

Damp flesh
From exertion
I reached,
Pushed dust
Before you
Touched your cellophane wing

Alien life
Black body
Abandoned cigar butt
Hammerhead Eyes
Clear cape
Black ribbing

You climbed -
Tip, knuckle
Back of hand
Lunar landscape
Tentative
High stepping

Soft hairs
Sawgrass feet
Scrape, slide
Fall to earth

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edited December 29, 2015

Cicada Feet – v3

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/12/cicada-feet-v3.html

(merging edits to version 1 and version 2)

posted July 19, 2004

written 9/19/03 14:00, edits 9/19/03 18:40 – 19:50

Cicada Feet – v1

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/07/cicada-feet.html

-         An earlier version than the one posted on February 15.

Posted February 15, 2004

Further edits 9/22/03, on 3^rd stanza

Cicada Feet – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/02/cicada-feet.html

Edits a combination of mine and input from Roberta Woods,

particularly addition of second line about pupal stage

and line about body like a cigar butt

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