Music of Silence

One of a series of collaborative NFTs by digital artist Paul Petersen, aka SphericalArt, and Charlotte Hart, poet. spokenlandscapes.com MUSIC OF SILENCE: The soft lavender light of twilight drew near. The aroma of green grass, Four O’clocks, phlox and smoldering wood drifted on the edge of consciousness. I realized there was a fire inside the tree. Within, it snapped and roared. Air quivered near the bark. High above, within the trunk above a burl, in a hole, I could see the shimmering hot orange as a swirl of smoke reached out. In the alchemy of an instant a cyclone arose in my insistent heart. It filled me with a numinous light. Then the music came, red with a beat, beatific and bright, that emanated in colors visible and hidden in tones, radiating levels of intensity that permeated everything. There was not a human or creature’s body or plant or river or dune without a tune, a time, a rhythm. Ocean waves and planets, stars and seasons, bees, unfurling palm fronds, hidden photons and electrons, all played variations of music, a symphony of cords majestic. In a myriad of musical styles, life sang and danced. Time and space vibrated in unique sumptuous sounds. A divine energy and the pace of it, the divine taste of it, entered me and allowed me to see and hear splendor in the storm. The cords seemed to have power to bring back the dead in a joyous touch of redemption. The unborn waited in liquid harmony, umbilical cord of life, grace on every face. The music is here, in silence, our sacred days.