The Hum - edit

[busker]

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 phases, never two or one or four. .... I think it'd be better not to make it obvious. With 'Tesla's triune vision' and 'overseas at fifty' / 'american threescore', 'Westinghouse's unitary drone' and other bits, it's clear what is being talked about, and the reader feels more clever if the poem is left as a(n albeit simple), riddle. The 'never one' is a bit problematic, since we have HVDC that is, in fact, used for extra long distances.

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. ....there were many who had this vision at the time, not just Tesla...but is ok for a poem I suppose

Enjoyed it. We don't get enough poems of this kind.
drone' and other bits, it's clear what is being talked about, and the reader feels more clever if the poem is left as a(n albeit simple), riddle.