Tinnitus The hum of a powerful engine idling among the trees; but when one looks up at the light thousands of bees   are swarming, a galaxy of dark stars, making their sound in unison as they swirl and orbit above the ground,   before, also in unison, they return to their hive, a fungus-like growth on a tree-fork. The bees live   like humans in an apartment building side by side in furnished comfortable cells well supplied   with warmth and nourishment, and drones set out each day to perform the tasks assigned to them where flowers sway  …