Magicicada

“If their lives are short, they are merry…they still continue on Singing till they die.”

The miracle of the internet. Growing up, I had no idea that cicadas hibernated—it’s not exactly hiberation, but it’s not unlike hibernation either—underground for 17 years. They were simply a fact of life—the omnipresent soundtrack of summer—and if there were more or less of them one year than the year after or the year previously, I didn’t notice. I re…