is a soundproof room in the University of Alaska's museum
where seismic tremors,
solar radiation,
and other silent geologic and cosmic measurables are transformed into sound.
We heard rumbles and varied high keening tones, always shifting, unpredictable.
Unthinking, it could be called "unearthly,"
yet it was both as earthly and as heavenly as anything we'd ever heard.
We were transfixed.
Imagine, to hear sunrise and moonrise,
storms and sunlight,
mountains being made new,
northern lights and starry nights and comets and earthquakes.
So much goes on that we are unaware of,
that we refuse to be (or can't be) aware of.
I tell you, if my disciples would keep silent, the stones would shout aloud. Luke 19:40 (NEB)
Sue
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