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Crickets in Winter

In late summer chirrs of crickets

Add seismic charm to winding

Morning runs through the brush.

 

As autumn chill slips into the brambles

Chirps subside to a murmur … but still there

Humming like a neutron star.

 

Winter runs are silent

Save for the soft crush of snow

Subtle as an angel’s pulse.

 

Yet I wait for the clear winter day

When the tundra explodes

With brassy music from thousands 

Of white crickets—

Glittering in their icy coats.

 

— Dennis Trujillo