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Picture: Louisville, Kentucky, 2004. You can't see the orange clouds of cicadas in this picture, but they really were creating quite a buzz!

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What’s that high-pitched song from my tiny neighbors? Cicadas have arrived in sweetly baking desert. Sign monsoon’s coming so I’ll soon have to run, exploring other places that may have cicadas. Like that time in Louisville when cicadas’ noise joined the urgent siren of tornado’s warning. They were free after seven years hibernating, creating orange clouds all round the trees.

The bugs of summer. The buzz of summer!

Camping humid places the nights are so alive! Sounds of so many bugs unseen in darkness. Except for yellow glow as the fireflies try to attract their lovers, makes me wonder why: No fireflies in desert but oh, lucky us. After rains get whining blood-suck mosquitos. Worse up north like when they swarmed me in Maine; trying to enjoy view of Mount Katahdin.

The bugs of summer. The buzz of summer!

I revel in the chirp of crickets at night, and days brightened by ladybugs and butterflies. Yet wish flies and roaches and ants would cease invading my space, which reminds me of this: A lifelong fear of bees that’s finally justified with my first sting as one gets trapped in my car, near Buffalo. Yet they’re pollinators, I know. For my friend Jacky, I’ll learn to live with them.

The bugs of summer. The buzz of summer!

Yet I’d face nests of wasps any day before I’d ask for bugs’ absence as a consequence of same wretched cold suppresses bites and buzz, leaves me feeling empty while it kills my hopes!

And I can’t tell you my love will still be strong after the song of cicadas has gone.

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from Partly Sunny​/​Partly Cloudy, released April 19, 2014

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