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…

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…

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…

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!”…

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…

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 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…

Hyperion is a moon of Saturn, shaped like bashed in potato. Instead of spinning on its axis like a typical moon or planet, it tumbles rapidly and irregularly, as though careening out of balance from a violent impact. Despite its…

Three of Jupiter’s moons spin in relatively simple harmonic orbits. For every circuit of Ganymede, Europa orbits twice and Io rounds the planet four times. The three parts in this mensuration canon have imitating voices at a half and quarter…