From Resonance Dark and Light, Eldritch Press, 2015 RESONANCE REDUX 1 a: the quality or state of being resonant b: a vibration of large amplitude in a mechanical electrical political social personal behavioral artistic or tribal system caused by a small stimulus of the same period as the temporal vibration it habits long before the storm a butterfly flutters its wings in a primeval forest the rhetoric of der Führer inflames the hearts of a disheartened generation Robert Zimmerman hears Woody Guthrie for the first time 2 a: a quality imparted to sound by vibration in resonating cavities the bowl of the chest the chasm of self the bent canvas of history the dark cave of the stars (there is a mathematical formula to explain such resonance in each hemisphere) b: a quality of richness or variety in whatever taste one might express thin apple slices the nuttiness of an aged Swiss and a properly chilled Gewürztraminer he was working his way through the elite of the noir canon from the savage nights of Jim Thompson to the savoir-faire and nonchalance of Highsmith’s Mr. Ripley c: the intensification and enriching of a musical tone by supplementary vibrations Monk and Coltrane jazz improv extraordinaire listening and reflecting and echoing one another d: a quality of evoking a response a rapier’s thrust a chess move that topples the evil king an unexpected kiss 3 the enhancement of an atomic nuclear or particle reaction or a scattering event by the excitation of internal motion in its system Bikini Atoll  Fukushima Three Mile Island Chernobyl Hiroshima  Nagasaki death and mutation of both fauna and flora 4 the sound elicited on the percussion of the chest from internal or external stimuli a doctor’s tap a boxer’s blow a blob of undigested gristle or gravy an electric guitar 5 the way certain senses can conjoin in memory sight taste scent sound telescoping into full-blown memories of another sense the fragrance of geraniums always evoked a vision of their garish petals twined in a chain link fence from somewhere when in his migratory youth her allergic lover’s death throes on the sun-slashed forest floor recalled by the distinctive drone of a wasp in flight. 6 a vague yet sure sense that something is there you can’t quite apprehend a matrix for understanding the scattered debris of the past the secret the moon and stars invisible beyond the neon-plaited night of Manhattan