Music where there is no sound
The dance of space is all around
Put your ear to the vacuum ground
A wave is something going up and down
Your floating in space
your headset drawn
nothing to listen to
all the stations gone
The earth and moon hear the sound
The earth and moon dance around
Moon face never looking from Earth’s ground
Always falling, never coming down
Your floating in space
your headset drawn
nothing to listen to
all the stations gone
The magnetic sun hears the sound
It sunspots dancing all around
Electric fields to their electric ground
Magnetic lines arcing up then down
Your floating in space
your headset drawn
nothing to listen to
all the stations gone
The Milky Way hears the sound
Dancing with stars all around
Dark matter galactic edges an unseen ground
Stars moving fast when they should slow down
Your floating in space
your headset drawn
nothing to listen to
all the stations gone
Do you hear it yet?
You need more than your ears
math, sensors, and signals
the offbeat sound of spheres
Space itself hears the sound
Dancing to static all around
birth sounds of the universe in the background
even with the universe cooling down
Your floating in space
your headset drawn
nothing to listen to
all the stations gone
A removed excerpt from “Property of Nature” after edits rendered the passage obsolete. Reproduced here with permission from the author (me).