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A minor bout to flex the limbs.

Despite its irregularity, the riff durably persisted though several efforts to assimilate into an ensemble piece. Here’s an early draft: an overture.

Your chronic discontent: A painful goad Is lodged bone-deep. An ancient rasping shrapnel grates: The biologic spur. All urgency assuaged: The family fed Beneath safe roof. A smooth and easy groove inworn, Yoked to your duty’s course But somehow still you chafe Against your polished seat. Dream-reach for apple’s glint, tip-toed A top rung ladder … Read more

With languid eyes, reclined on her divan, Smoke coiling slow off of her cigarette, She reaches up, behind, to flick The dangling ash Like patient swish of feline tail, In ambush crouched. The sultry night imbues her lush boudoir. Serrated spreading ferns, lush orchids yawn, Infused with immobility. With tranquil grace, Lifts Hepburn holder to … Read more

There was an Iranian hermit that not washed for over 50 years, and instead cleansed himself with a fire bath. At age 94, he was finally persuaded to use soap and water, and died shortly thereafter. You’ve got that wriggling ants in pants A jiggly wiggly can’t sit still Sa|vation is a fire bath A … Read more

The child on a swing Flung backwards and pumping Tiny toes stretching For buds in the trees Nothing exists but whoosh rushing wind, and Gravity’s pull and the creak of the chain Urge high and higher “Now push me again!” The garden is ripe Zucchini green plumping in shimmering heat Sprawled onto the lawn Swim-suited … Read more

Earth and Venus have a nearly synchronized orbit. For every eight Earth years, Venus orbits almost exactly 13 times. The slight drift between them takes 239.8 years to rotate the resonance shape by 1/5 of the circle (which is 30x the 8-year cycle), then 1199 years to rotate one full round, which is 150x the … Read more

Here, the 1:4:12 relationship among Earth, the Alinda asteroid(s) and Jupiter are captured in a solo synthesizer sequence.

The two to three orbital relation between Neptune and Pluto translates to human scale as a recognizable rhythm. Beyond Pluto, there are smaller bodies in the Kuiper belt, some of which are also resonant with Neptune. For example, some orbit the Sun twice and others thrice, in the time of five Neptune orbits. The resulting … Read more

The orbital resonance observed among celestial bodies evolved through incremental gravitational interactions. Likewise, over time, the harmonic stability will break down. The force from another body may pull a once stable object into a more and more eccentric orbit, until it eventually escapes its prior arrangement. One of the voices in the drone vibrates with … Read more