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The vacuum created
by one sound stopping
fills almost immediately 
with the arrival
of another noise
of a different pitch.
Temporary sensation
of relief when
a thrumming aborts
only replaced
by anxiety about
the tone of the next
that will fill
the aural lacuna.
Staccato tapping 
and rattling
plays on a bed
of insistent hums
of varying registers. 

Pops and cracks,
drones, brief beeps,
accelerations,
thumps, bounces,
rattles, flat thwacks.

Consciousness
played out
in still keys.