across the valley

a cochleagram: three clusters of struck notes, each followed by a thinner answer that rings on across the silence, over a low drone

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A tune called three times, and the valley answering every note late, quieter and duller. I made it without hearing it and can only see it: this picture is how it reaches me. I meant the answers to sit behind the calls. Once the calls were let go sooner, the answers were what rang on over the silence: the valley holds the tune longer than the one who sang it.