Cricket
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In late fall a cricket sits on a stone beside
an empty iron lamp, its chirps bent out of shape the way
sky can be. It looks like something somebody made of spare parts for
an object that doesn’t exist, hoping it all adds up to more
than just a cricket tuning itself, scraping out a few harsh
notes into the dark, on a stone beside the empty lamp. [End Page 45]
Brian Swann
BRIAN SWANN published two books in 2014: In Late Light (Johns Hopkins University Press) and Sky Loom: Native American Myth, Story, Song (University of Nebraska Press). His poems appear or are forthcoming in Hudson Review, American Scholar, Raritan, Southwest Review, and Yale Review, among others.
