seventeen cicadas hum

Short verse, stories, a few photos. Living. Noticing.

Monday, March 7, 2011

cicada haiku

now and now and now
seventeen cicadas hum
why not sing along

Posted by Danielle at 12:37 PM

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Cicada notes - from the Oxford English Dictionary

seventeen-year locust n. (also seventeen-years' locust)
Cicada septemdecim
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1882 Cassell's Nat. Hist. VI. 112 One North American species is called the Seventeen-years' Locust (Cicada septendecim) because it is said to appear only at intervals of seventeen years in any given locality.
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