The Locust
Its hot voice sizzles from some cool tree Near-by : It seems to burn its way through the air Like a small, pointed flame of sound Sharpened on the ecstatic edge of sunbeams.
Leonora Speyer
Its hot voice sizzles from some cool tree Near-by : It seems to burn its way through the air Like a small, pointed flame of sound Sharpened on the ecstatic edge of sunbeams.
A locust is hidden somewhere in a nearby tree, but the sound it makes doesn’t stay hidden. The speaker hears its buzzing as something almost physical: a “hot voice” that sizzles, as if the noise itself were cooking the air.
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