Summer’s Squeaky Wheel
Grasshoppers and crickets
are the static of summer
a steady drone I can’t pin down
They seem to trade rounds
like altos and sopranos
in a chorus of chatter and hum
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Finally a soloist
breaks through the crowd
The others cheer him on
in a rousing language
I don’t understand
in a clamor of opera drama
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They don’t show themselves
but make themselves heard
as a persistent simmer
in the heat of summer
In the black of night
they chirp on
________________ Colleen Redman
August 8th, 2010 2:13 pm
Another beauty!!
August 8th, 2010 2:25 pm
I just now scribbled this one down in less than an hour. I think my writing skills must be improving with all the writing I’m doing, but that’s not to say this version is final. xo
August 8th, 2010 2:38 pm
All my writing is done in a few minutes but as you can tell editing and reviewing are NOT my forte! Anyway, I had this same chorus yesterday and it almost moved me to write something. I am glad I didn’t as it would be a shadow of this one.
August 8th, 2010 3:50 pm
Thank you, Tabor! I usually spend days picking over poems and sometimes problems with them never get solved, so I set them aside. Writing is something I do but I don’t think it has ever come easy. It’s starting to come easier, at least the writing I do for myself is.
I always enjoy seeing how you put your thoughts together.
August 9th, 2010 10:56 am
Oh, I like this. So many sights and sounds and strong images.
August 11th, 2010 9:23 am
Hi Colleen,
Anne Carson’s most recent poetry book reminds me of your scrapbook projects: http://conversationalreading.com/new-book-nox-by-anne-carson-or-sebaldian-book-box-object
August 14th, 2010 10:13 am
http://www.ndpublishing.com/books/CarsonNox.html
is a better link. it is an epitaph project in poetry about her brother’s death.
August 31st, 2010 10:33 am
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