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\"Singing<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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the Northern Lights are music
played by giants in the space
between giants
air that smells like salt, salt
that looms
as tall as winter
tall as salt
here at our little lighthouse
the roof has blown clean off
with the volume of green
the shingles rain down
the shingles float
like pack ice
like stained glass if it
crushed ships
I open my eyes to hear
no blue song but the brightness
loud through my peeled back lids
peeling backwards and backwards
til they disappear in the spaces
between pupils and all there is,
is howls and nightsong<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true,"inline_featured_image":false},"class_list":["post-2340","poems","type-poems","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nThe Northern Lights Are Music - Roses & Wildflowers Spring 2025<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Northern Lights Are Music - Roses & Wildflowers Spring 2025\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"the Northern Lights are musicplayed by giants in the spacebetween giantsair that smells like salt, saltthat loomsas tall as wintertall as salthere at our little lighthousethe roof has blown clean offwith the volume of greenthe shingles rain downthe shingles floatlike pack icelike stained glass if itcrushed shipsI open my eyes to hearno blue song but […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/societyforritualarts.com\/rw\/2025-spring\/poems\/the-northern-lights-are-music\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Roses & Wildflowers Spring 2025\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/coreopsisjournal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-07-02T23:56:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/societyforritualarts.com\/rw\/2025-spring\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Singing-Giant-sm-scaled.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1707\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"2560\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/societyforritualarts.com\\\/rw\\\/2025-spring\\\/poems\\\/the-northern-lights-are-music\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/societyforritualarts.com\\\/rw\\\/2025-spring\\\/poems\\\/the-northern-lights-are-music\\\/\",\"name\":\"The Northern Lights Are Music - 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