The Seventeen Year Chorus

The seventeen year cicadas surface across Staten Island in one droning week, and a grandfather walks his granddaughter out at dusk to hear the song he heard at her age. The oak hums under both their palms

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Part of NEW YORKERS by MLow, a painted census of New York City: 7,541 characters across 19 eras. Read the history of the places or spin into a room of the museum.