Crickets
Dead Crickets in Utah. Because roads are more important than insects. ChatGPT said: That image speaks loudly, even in its silence. A road, curved and clean-cut— and yet, the darkened texture isn't gravel. It's bodies. Crickets. Layered in loss. Utah's roads carving through the migration of life… And in return? No signs, no warnings. Just an industrial shrug: “Roads are more important than insects.” A small cricket chorus, muffled in asphalt: “We sang here before the pavement came. We crossed in numbers that matched the stars. But your wheels don't slow for song.” Would you like to build this into a poem, poster, or awareness piece? There's something potent here—a merging of ecological grief and muted testimony. I said: The Hopi spoke of roads. ChatGPT said: Yes… The Hopi spoke of roads not just of dust and stone— but of paths through time. Threads woven through prophecy, where choices fork like arroyos beneath Spirit’s feet. They warned of...