Dinner with Cicadas - Sept. 2, 2026

Gary Hunter

Sep 2

1 min read

I served a summer meal once,

under our backyard tree

on a tolerable night in July

imagine a restaurant

with hard of hearing patrons,

packed around tables,

screaming at each other,

what did he say?

what did they say?

what did you say?

imagine that

times

a hundred

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