{"id":31762,"date":"2025-06-25T21:31:19","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T21:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/?p=31762"},"modified":"2025-07-01T21:35:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T21:35:29","slug":"arrias-and-the-cicadas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/arrias-and-the-cicadas\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrias and the Cicadas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"190\" height=\"256\" class=\"wp-image-23163\" style=\"width: 190px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/arrias_muse1.png\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/arrias_muse1.png 214w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/arrias_muse1-209x281.png 209w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\" \/>A heavy chorus of cicadas as I walked Rosey &#8211; it was almost as if they were singing two parts &#8211; scores would click away for perhaps a second or two &#8211; must have been hundreds of them, a slight pause, then another section of the choir with a different pitch for a second or so, then they would pause, only to be answered by the first group of the \u201cchorus\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cicadas Sing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Summer night, the air so thick,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wet and heavy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>, feel it cling,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Branches droop so low,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Listen to the cicadas sing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Summer Triangle high above<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just where it belongs,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Altair there, behind those trees,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hear the cicada song.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The last few birds grow quiet,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One silent barn owl on wing,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Denizens of the forest keep polite silence,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Listening to the cicadas sing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tree frogs join in chorus,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The wood with this strange song rings,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Dismal Swamp in June,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Listen to the cicadas sing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A heavy chorus of cicadas as I walked Rosey &#8211; it was almost as if they were singing two parts &#8211; scores would click away for perhaps a second or two &#8211; must have been hundreds of them, a slight pause, then another section of the choir with a different pitch for a second or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arrian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31762"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31765,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31762\/revisions\/31765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}