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8 3. PLANETARIUM A child already an old man sits in a rocking chair in the yard facing into the shadow side of four elms down the end of the block. He’s heard but hears them for the first time as the cicadas he’s looking for just one bowing its wings with its legs as he’s been told they do he wants to see. The sun lowering on the opposite side of the trees pierces through burning open holes in spaces brilliant prismatic explosions. He thinks this is how cicadas’ sound speakers look hooked up to the sky through the trees refractive, light show to the music & this evening is their show the cataclysmic novas nebulae ...

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