Poem: Beneath Is Only Polyrhythm

Beneath Is Only Polyrhythm

Within each single sound is a set of sounds,
the harmony is only vibration,
faster than rhythm, fast enough
it becomes impossible to hear
one beat and another,
but they are there, deep down
under it all.  It is all rhythm,
is all the segmenting of time
into one beat and another.
It is because it cannot be heard,
because it is too fast to hear
as anything but a blur,
that any tone is heard at all.

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