Text on the eight arcs:

arc#1 motors, lights, linkage, and a silence
arc#2 of shadowy beings incised in a cavern,
arc#3 they hunted, slaughtered, plowed, milled,
arc#4 they endured in love, endured in rage,
arc#5 incised a crosshatch of reason on chaos,
arc#6 subdued phantoms with concentric writings,
arc#7 ordered their lives as they became experts,
arc#8 its all coming soon to a town near you, the

Text on the four smaller discs rotating beneath four of the eight arcs:

disc#1 that carnival, that well timed punch,
disc#2 the night said stay and so did my friends,
disc#3 we reveled and cursed and crooned in harmony,
disc#4 all a-tumble at that bright dawn of memory