Aeolian Sonata No. 32 In All Notes (Major & Minor) K. 454 April 1784

A Jesuit Priest

And scholar

A man researched in

Geography, Astronomy, Mathematics

Language, Medicine and Music

Athanasius Kircher

A German

Invented the Aeolian Harp

In 1650

The instrument already being a Greek myth

At the time

It was a 5’ long box zither

With a dozen or so gut strings

Of different diameter

Tensioned to the same unison pitch

It became a household item

People put them in their windows

And the wind would play them

The rhythmic collapse would make 

The strings choir

A string

One Two-Hundredth of a foot

In diameter

Could sound the note ‘A’

From a woman’s mid-voice range

A strange melange of sound

Floated above

Fundamental unison drone

Nature’s dissonant overtones

Carried by the wind 

For 182 years

Over olive trees

And lemon groves

Across Mediterannean

Sea shells

The stormy Atlantic Ocean

Slowly ebbing

Into 1966

To the sands of 

Coney Island

Mixing with the smells of

Pretzels
Hot dogs

And New York City pizza

Bubbling with the 

Heroin in a spoon

The Reprodhone chords leading into

The Velvet Underground’s

‘Waiting For The Man’

I’m sure 

By god

That’s how

Lou Reed

Came up with that song