Reprieve

It’s been incredibly hot in Texas this summer with temperatures regularly reaching over 105 degrees. I’ve started walking at 5:30 in the morning to try to avoid the worst of the heat, but it’s still over 80 degrees at that time. This morning it was so hot and humid that I saw a cicada lying on his back, slowly pulling himself across the concrete to the sprinklers going off in the yard across the street. But even worse was the other cicada holding onto his wing too drained to even make the attempt.