THE EVOLVING CITY Fannie H. Gray BALLSTON Piercing glint yet brief Already the sun is crowded out they rise dense like a cloud of steel cicadas light, once direct, pure bounces in waves from window to beam to my upturned face wind, rustles through the newly wound tunnels through me and dies in the open street     Fannie H. Gray is the mother of two young children who has lived in the Barcroft neighborhood of Arlington, VA for 5 years. Published in Volume 8, Number 4, Fall 2007. To read more by this author: Fannie Gray: Langston Hughes Tribute Issue