NAMING SOUNDS

1.

Let there be

Then God said

And God called

and God said to them

2.

At God’s funeral

the name itself

will be buried

the name

being

the thing

No God but God

and Moses wrote:  Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord, thy God, in vain.

3.

Nothing is so like God as silence.  (Meister Eckhardt)

4.

Abracadabra:  from the Aramaic, avra kehdabram, I create what I name.

Before humans, nothing had a name
we named everything

Begin naming

you will never reach the end of it

If there’s anything to discuss

we’ve named it

or will –

any second now.

5. 

The sound waves made by your vocal cords travel in dry air at 0.2 miles per second in a straight line until they meet an obstacle.  If the obstacle is soft, the waves are absorbed and vanish.  If the obstacle is hard, the waves ricochet.  An unimpeded wave will join other sound waves until they all die away…

6.

My name is Richard Douglas Eugene Karma Shenphen Namgyal Aaron Wells, a.k.a., O.G.

7.

Ar-tic-u-la-tion

makin’ me late

keepin’ me waitin’ (Carol King)

If I feel

but can’t say

what I feel

then what…?

Give me some words

for how I hurt.

8.

For years, as a regular occurrence I would hear, “Richard,” or “Dick,” being called by my mom, by a friend, or an unrecognizable voice. 

At first, I’d stop in my tracks, turn around, and look to see who was calling.

Later on, I'd just keep walking.

No one has called in a while.

9.

What is the wave length

of the Ark’s big broadcast

of alphabets on fire

letters

I can’t read

words

I don’t understand

names

I can’t pronounce

languages, gibberish, truth

10.

sound of the whirlwind

sound of burning

11.

NASA tells us that in the Perseus cluster of galaxies located 250 million light years from Earth there are black holes.  Sound waves have traveled hundreds of thousands of light year away from the cluster’s central black hole.  The sound is a B Flat, 57 octaves below middle C (our 8 note speech octave,) one million, billion times lower than the lowest sound perceived by the human ear.

12.

Can’t hear the prayers

or longings

of ancestors

more recent than ancient

Radio waves are electromagnetic waves and travel at the speed of light.  Sound waves from radio broadcasts have been picked up 20 light years from Earth.  (A light year is the distance light travels in one year – about 6 trillion miles, or in this case 120 trillion miles in twenty years.

(120,000,000,000,000)

I can hear Hitler

anytime I want

14.

the discordance of ghosts.