It appears there aren't any. Apart from grasshopper and insect and cicada, none of which will do. I might check out the latin name, but I'm not convinced that will cut the mustard either.
What is this for, I hear you ask. It's for the latest exercise in my online poetry course with Jen Hadfield and The Poetry School
I am trying to 'negate' Robin Robertson's 'Drowning in Co Down' and somehow my negation of a poem about water and weight and drink has let me to locusts.
Some days I'm gobsmacked my brain works at all.
Cicada? Ravening cicada? Voracious insect? Plague insect? Cursed swarm. Biblical swarm. I like a bit of bible I do. Also, I noticed that locust contains the word locus (I know you know that) but I really admire the way CA Duffy uses the word centre (something about a noun with a verb dancing in it) in her poem about Shakespeare's wife. So, maybe that's some use, maybe not. YOU decide. Cathy x
ReplyDeleteI think in the end I solved the problem by sticking locust in the title, and then not mentioning it again in the whole poem. A cop out perhaps, but it worked.
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