Reverberation

while not falling asleep
I made a sound map
of those clicks under the bed
and by cities:

platbands and bougainvillea
from Tegucigalpa
machine guns and spiders
from Tel Aviv
flush toilets and platypuses
in mogadishu
forests and automobiles
from Ouagadougou

pigeons and trawlers
by Ulan Bator
whales and household appliances
in Phnom Penh
giraffes and drums
in Maputo
kangaroos and books
from Antananarivo
camels and pyramids
from bangkok

bees and tractors
in Kuala Lumpur
goats and submarines
in Dar es Salaam
pomegranates and helicopters
in Paramaribo
hippos and castanets
from Reykjavik
crowns and crocodiles
in Islamabad

monkeys and pots
in Lisbon
coffins and seagulls
from Kathmandu
potatoes and dolls
in Dili
crows and cranes
in Bandar Seri Begawan

rivers of sound waves
and listening to body radars
on a sleepless radio receiver
no fatigue and no pills
sleepless and listening
moving trains

in Rio de Janeiro
in Tokyo
in New York

sleepless and
listening
the colors
falling off the map of sounds
of cities.



PAR