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Resonance

                                                                     Carolyn Ogburn & Margo Solod

This is what I work towards: resonance

of fourteen strings. Seven for the bow,

seven more in sympathetic vibration.

 

I am devastated my one moment,

resonating quicker than understanding.

This moment must be happening

 

daily, hourly, every second somewhere –

each moment touches another, rippling

in all directions, the famous wing

 

of the butterfly setting off monsoons

in the south. A stock market crashes,

a dog catches a stick and you come back

 

from the Amoco with cigarettes

and will not meet my eye.

I can still see vibration

 

shimmering around you,

but I listen in vain for the note.