Nocturne

Is it from the velvet
resonance of whale song
or the dark timbre of wolves
howling vibratos to other selves?

The Earth has a song,
all the planets do –
you can listen on the NASA website,
to those far-distant melodies

Messengers, ringing out through
dead-space, caught in the
tendrils of life, the Earth, 
a nightingale among the stars

All whirling and booming a light-song
refracted, detected, recorded.
Magnetic blooms holding them fast 
light-waves their lines of gravity,
heartbeats in an ocean of time

Sailing against the void.
On screen, I watched the trace and track
of a particle deep underground
from that 26 mile bunker in a borderland,

Somewhere,
a faint luminescence.
Then looked outside at the night
And thought of you.