Cicadas Shells
in its nymphal stage, slowly emerging
half-way outside of its own shell
placed on the tongues of deceased persons
to see a cicada shed its skin,
in all but one burrow
with white, pale blue, orange
chocolate brown eyes
thick on the ground
live underground as nymphs
for most of their lives
can be found on the trunks
of trees; veins
in the cicada’s wings
fill up like heat
to collect them
can be found molting an inch:
deformed cicada
at Pine Crest Cemetery—
two females
found fortuitously in vegetation
constructing an exit tunnel
