Now that the kymograph is obsolete are we left to our ears -- individual and collective? Sound can be silent but is it ever singular? What do decibels of sound reveal?
Look to the meal. In the kitchen, the crispness of carrot & celery. Various salad greens ripped into smallish and uneven pieces. The name snap peas says it all, doesn't it. The kitchen is a laboratory of sound. And smells. So you ask, what measures the smells in a poem?
Train Rides with Music
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when the wind starts
but one evening does not always
lead to another
At home the unsuspecting steward of the shop
boils leather
not wishing for more
than a window
open wide to the newly mangled
air