The sound is silvery and shimmers
in the air the way frost shimmers
in moonlight. You don’t perceive it
with your ears the way you perceive
ordinary sound. You feel it, almost
like a tickle, just inside the top
of your skull. You have to be very
still, letting your breath flow
like thin layers of silk. The sound
rides them, your breaths, and
being made of high and delicate
vibrations, rises to the very top
of you, where it plays. You don’t
see the fairies either. But again,
you feel them, their almost visible
gossamer bodies dancing
all around you as the music
shimmers, like frost, in the air.