Description
First day of winter, and it seems all the insects are dead.
None sail around any more, or chirp, or buzz, or suddenly
forget the art of flying above your soup. But they are
there, under the leaves, burrowed into frozen plowings,
little wings folded, legs tucked close. They are in the
tiny cases of their bodies, alive, some of them, but
still as fallen twigs or stones.
Meanwhile, the sky, lonesome without their tiny
aviators, has filled the air with snowflakes.
