Saturday, August 25, 2018

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.

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