Cadence in the Wake

Since this Higgs Bozo teaches us

Overlying a strumming beat

Grooves the entirety of the universe

A drum expanding in summer heat

That we're all just tiny vibrations

Tugging heartstrings in a rhythmic play

(Veloso sang to me "A tone is a good place"

And quantum mechanics are not his métier)

Is it strange, then, to say

That a hum has universal energy?

This fertile asphalt amplifies

The laughter of our feet

While the cicadas buzz call-and-response

To the rain that kisses this blurring heat

Though a storm chokes the horizon

With gales that will break

With buckets that will bow

We'll hear shelter in harmony,

Discover cadence in the wake.