Surprise yourself

Who knows where your imagination will take you? I doubt Maria Wasson ever gave much thought to playing music in a silo, but that’s where her imagination led her on this day. And what an intriguing journey it is! Often the most memorable writing takes both the writer and the reader by surprise.

Sound Tube 

Have you ever heard music 

or better yet, played music in a silo? 

I have heard of it 

and imagined it 

but never experienced it directly 

I imagine 

pitch black sound 

bouncing along the cylindrical 

walls of the silo 

that once stored grain 

(Would a silo that stored corn sound different than a silo that stored barley?) 

I wonder how you get into the silo? 

and what the air smells like? 

and what instruments would make what sounds? 

and what if a singer-poet 

with an eccentric 

and other-worldly voice 

was singing? 

The only sound reverberating 

in the giant tube 

Would it be a realigning of the electrons 

in each cell of the body 

like the magnetic resonance scanner does? 

only through sound 

going round and round 

wave upon wave 

layer upon layer of reverberation 

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