First octave

Poetry

Photo: Miguel Alcantara / Unsplash

goodbye.

the whole harmonic series
proportionate
to temperature

how fast is) time. of
flight: the airspeed of

2nd order harmonic
outrunning the 3rd and 
first octave is all

that’s heard
and heard above
the buried fundamental.

faster and it’s 
only harmonics
that which

make a piano (become
resplendent 

and pretty soon it’s 
beyond) when a piano
when a volcano

yours:

the whole harmonic series
when you speak: voice
that breathed above the

waters like a whole
erupt and cratered fountain
(mouthed forever

all there is and all

there is and all.