CICADAS & KENSEI

Kensei saw the baby bird in the road. He picked it up, rested it under a garden hedge and covered it with a leaf. He didn’t want the sad indignity of it being run over by a bus, even though he knew it was already dead. At school Kensei held the tail of a Rock python, while five of his friends took the rest of its weight. In the same class he had his arm tickled by a tarantula. At home he has two guinea pigs, White Stripes and Warhol. Kensei’s mother is from Yokohama so the guinea pigs have Japanese names too, Shimako (Stripes) and Anako (Hole). Kensei’s trips to Japan have been to see his family at Christmas so he’s missed the summer Cicada season. His grandmother, Keiko, is squeamish about insects but she sent him these Cicadas. He has requested that next she send him a Praying Mantis.

09 Jun 2013