When numbers reach acute mega-zeros,
they are surely incomprehensible,
yet music can attain similar heights,
with transcendent, numinous mystery
beyond ordinary understanding—
which is why music transmits art
beyond poetic articulation
that carries more concrete imagery.
Poetic lines are said to have music,
but that observation is compliment
in the category of eloquence
where words achieve aesthetic resonance.
Music and poetry are difficult—
it’s hard to say which is more difficult!
