The last bit of summer

I found the body of a cicada, beside the damp dirt road. I had seen them lying around and desiccating everywhere in the summer heat. But today, the air was cool, the rice paddies a golden brown, and with no other cicadas chirping, it just didn`t sound like summer anymore.

I wondered if anyone had heard this cicada`s last song? Did its mate hear it? Or did the summer`s last cicada die alone? It`s appendages were locked in a way as if it were still clinging to the tree bark. Maybe it died while still clinging to the last bits of summer.