Tone

Impulse:
electron-freed
spinal race down to
fingertips, slow curve.
Contoured-surface pressed
skin molds to tight spiral.

Impulse:
race again
to curled force
and small tensions
at near-right angles
until the wire

breathes (before)

Falling below its earth to underground
where then recoil brings screaming atoms
back to differential straightness
when peaked velocity leads again to
closeness to the sun
and other celestials,
curve above and
curve below
and
rest.