On
Vortex Street
the overhead wires
sing and hum
plucked like
strings
in tones composed
by the vector sum
of the wind’s
velocities
but in these
resonant meanderings
harmony arpeggios
and all the
world’s atrocities
and all the
world’s worst-case scenarios
wail in the
squalls
as into the maelstrom light curls swirls falls
-- Catherine Chandler ("On Vortex Street" was first published in Frostwriting, Issue 12)
An explanation of power lines singing in the wind is available in the second paragraph of this article.
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