Ripples

Pool glows blue on New Years Eve
Chaos ripples the surface
A light Portland rain
Like the snow static on an old TV
Remember that sound?
Never thought I wouldn’t hear that again
TV static and the busy signal
Extinct sounds
Or at least critically endangered
But water ripples are doing just fine
Pools will always ripple in the rain
Always have
Ripples predate humans
Hell they happen anywhere water falls from the sky
Anywhere in the universe
As long as the aliens living there have ears
They’ll know what I’m talking about
Or maybe they know it by some other sense
Whatever that may be
Right now this pool ripples
And I can hear it

-T. Weeks