Earth Music
By leighniles
A humpback whale composes a long song, low bluesy moans, to impress a lady in Mexico. His body is sleek and black with narrow scalloped flippers, white stripe shadow. For six months he sings for hours each day, ryhming refrains of pure and percussive tones in themes and variations, A-B-A. A rusty capped marsh wren, ready for jazz, lands on a sedge and starts to buzz, then emits a series of musical rattles, matched by a neibor in call response pattern. The first wren continues in another pitch, one hundred twenty themes in a single jam session, all for a woman to share some passion. I place a CD in its circular tray. Push one button and deep in my brain sodium gates swing open, a signal oscillates jumping from node to node, and nucleosomes spring from spiral braids. The DNA ribbons seperate, and oh, those neurons sing, as I fall in love like a whale with wings. Written April 20th, 2002 © on Apr 20 2002 03:15 PM PST 0 • 10
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