Splitting the Shell

Heat like a mouth,
high musical whine

of cicadas emerging
from that womb

cracked open
beneath the trees—

Scents of dry leaf,
camphor, burning;

and the long days
touching down,

finishing—
Brass and gold,

deep bass chord,
o you that rouse

the sleeping wing
to its small mystery.

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