Crickets have ears on their knees. Moreover the entire length of their legs can read vibrations emanating from the earth. They
translate quivered messages about footfalls and pawfalls, warnings of potential
predators. Crickets have ears on their
knees. When pup and I get too close, the crickets listen with their knees and feel our movements with their narrow, black and shiny appendages and become quiet.
If I were cricket-like with ears on my knees, would I become more cautious? I wonder what I would hear that would make me
be quiet as others pass. Were I to have
ears on my knees like crickets, would I be better at picking up undercurrents
of conversations and feelings, be able to ignore low-density unimportant messages? Would I be any better at
understanding relationships, if I could interpret the vibrations of emotions or
detect the drumming of worrisome thoughts with my bones? Would the understory speak more
eloquently, so that I could become better in defining the meanings under meanings? Crickets have ears on their
knees.
Crickets have long been thought of as symbols of
intuition. Little wonder. They can feel danger in the obscure realm of
night. They can see you coming without seeing. They can measure you by the
strength of your vibration, by the waves preceding you and by the currents of
your shifting weight. As I listen to the
beloved sound of crickets, I wish I had ears on my knees.
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