i saw a giant wasp hovering and saw why this fella lay legs up under the little fruit bee tree so i picked him up and fancied a little hum or pulse but it may a been the wind or my head and it seems it was too late for this one was stunned out of this world with wasp toxin.

but seeming so alive, like under a magic spell, they are called magicicadas, so still, i thought
maybe just it's just inert, maybe just biding time. after all the time underground learning how to wait.

i didn't want to leave her or him lying stunned to be eaten alive. i wanted to be the rescuer of a magicicada. maybe some magic would enliven me. it was late for magic perhaps, but something did pass between us.