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Cicadas, buckling and unbuckling their stomach muscles, yield the sound of someone sharpening scissors. Fall field crickets, the thermometer hounds, add high-pitched tinkling chirps to the jazz, and their call quickens with warm weather, slows again with cool.
Diane Ackerman
Diane Ackerman
Diane Ackerman
Born: Oct 7, 1948

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Weather, Fall, Field, Jazz, Add, Someone, Sharpening, Hound, Call, Sound, Scissors, Yield, Stomach, Again, Warm, Cool, Thermometer, Muscles

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