Christina M. Rau
Indium
When it cries it’s not a weep
but a cracking high pitched
slow controlled The crystals
twin and twin again once halved
so the halves keep halving along
fractals proportional to each degree
bent It can wet glass gloss over a fine
sheen call across a meadow from a hill
vibrant siren sound increasing until
so pitched it returns back silent
still a whole but different still
itself but new doubled over on
itself redefined If only it could
remember, put the parts back
together.
but a cracking high pitched
slow controlled The crystals
twin and twin again once halved
so the halves keep halving along
fractals proportional to each degree
bent It can wet glass gloss over a fine
sheen call across a meadow from a hill
vibrant siren sound increasing until
so pitched it returns back silent
still a whole but different still
itself but new doubled over on
itself redefined If only it could
remember, put the parts back
together.
How A Sound Can Shatter Glass
Resonance: the effect of air waves on other objects
Vibration: the quick motion of an object that creates waves in the air
Vibration: the quick motion of an object that creates waves in the air
When the oscillator caused the
neighborhood to shake and left
the police station in shards,
they smashed the machine with a sledgehammer.
neighborhood to shake and left
the police station in shards,
they smashed the machine with a sledgehammer.
Resonance: the lasting impression left in the ears when the air falls quiet
Vibration: the energy objects create when they lodge themselves in memory
Vibration: the energy objects create when they lodge themselves in memory
The damage was done: the pipes burst—
everything was a flood.
everything was a flood.
Resonance: the chord hit in the heart or brain
Vibration: tendency to tremor
Vibration: tendency to tremor
Its own walls tumbled down.
Resonance: resolve
Vibration: all that’s left
Vibration: all that’s left
For the Full Moon That Will Be Pink
New moon shady moon hazy moon not seen moon unseen moon round moon quarter round moon waxing moon waning moon wading moon waving moon man in the moon man on the moon man in the moon is a lady with lipstick and pearls sailor moon soft moon craggy moon crescent moon sliver of moon pie of moon sigh of moon shadow of moon light from moon harvest moon old moon seventh house moon celestial moon alcoholic moon straight moon clean moon howl at the moon wolf moon blue moon alone and lonesome moon telephone moon sly moon orchid moon nighttime moon good night moon morning moon daytime moon soapy moon pick a color moon epsom moon metallic moon cirrus moon tea moon groovy moon grove moon teardrop moon pray to the moon goddess moon seashell moon tidal moon noontime moon crater moon landed on the moon planted on the moon golf moon flag moon mission moon decision moon faltering moon fathom moon gumshoe moon hologram moon pixilated moon blast from the past moon rocket moon oh to the moon Alice to the moon love you to the moon and back.
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for Kepler 1625b
The oxymoron is this:
a moon orbiting an exoplanet
that orbits a star other than
the sun—
that’s an extrasolar planet
ignoring our star and attracting a satellite
of its own.
There are even bigger things out there
bigger than we could ever comprehend.
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