Over a decade underground
on tree sap survival
creepy crusty shells
crawl through earth
leaving exoskeletons’
nutrients near trees.

Emerge meta-morphs,
wings as stained glass
in green tinted bodies
with falsettos in tune
to a summer’s ending.

Only weeks left above ground
attracting their mates
to lay eggs by trees.

Judith wrote this unable to ignore critters that remind her of the circle of life.