The Hum - edit

[dukealien]

The Hum


Suffusing everything, the tone of life
at sixty to the second vanishes
from our perception as it banishes
unwelcome heat and cold, turns night to light.

It pulses slightly slower overseas
at fifty, not American threescore
but both, when running far, proceed in threes
of helixes, not five or two or four.

That hum we hear (or don’t) if civilized
is Westinghouse’s unitary drone–
but silently delivered, three to one,
by Tesla’s triune vision realized.

original version;

Suffusing everything, the tone of life
at sixty to the second vanishes
from our perception as it banishes
unwelcome heat and cold, turns night to light.

It pulses slightly slower overseas
at fifty, not American threescore
but both, when running far, proceed in threes
of phases, never two or one or four.

That hum we hear (or don’t) if civilized
is Westinghouse’s unitary drone–
but silently delivered, three to one,
by Tesla’s triune vision realized.