Summer Music
Why not start with a summer poem?
I’ve been wrestling with myself a bit over what I should post as my first poem. Should it be a newer poem or an older poem? Should it be a metered, rhyming poem (which I often write) or a more loosely structured poem? After going back and forth a bit, I finally decided a poem suited to the summer season would be my first poem for Declined.
One thing that fascinates me summer after summer is the unworldly singing of the cicadas when the weather starts getting hot. For a number of years, I’ve been trying to capture its sound and effect in poetry. Here’s my latest attempt.
Summer Music “The universe we see is governed by the invisible geometry of darkness.” Denis Overby “How to Create a Black Hole Out of Thin Air” NYT 24 December 2023 The air is shimmering with cicada chatter. Summer arrives on filmy wings incarnated in a billion bugs making music born of “the invisible geometry of darkness.” Thanks for reading Declined: Donald’s Substack! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.