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sleeplessness on summer nights
(katydids and crickets) tanka by adewpearl

cacophonous calls
of katydids and crickets
crowd night's silence out
while I who lie awakened
cannot slip back into sleep

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Author Notes
The tanka, the older cousin of haiku, captures a moment in time in five lines with syllables of 5/7/5/7/7.

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