What sound
does a subatomic particle
make?
A single human cell?
A dust mite crashing
its micro-mastodon bulk
through a carpet forest?
The mad laughter
of evolution issues from
our lips,
this world a cacophony
of competing
decibels, of freight trains
lacking finesse.
When all are asleep,
I can hear the stars sizzling like
4th of July sparklers,
the moon grumbling to itself,
and the silence of
possibility seeking a voice in
a busily mutating world.
The voices of the
micro-universe still remain
a mystery.
Microphone, a misnomer.
The music of
snowflakes falling, barely
audible to the blind.
Copyright © 2003 G. O. Clark
G. O. Clark lives and works in Davis, CA. He has work appearing in Asimov's, Dreams & Nightmares, Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Small Press Review, and other outlets. He was recipient of the Asimov's Readers' Award in poetry for 2001, the same year his book A Box Full Of Alien Skies was published by Dark Regions Press. A second book, The Other Side of the Lens, is now available from the same publisher. To contact him, email goclark@ucdavis.edu.