just an unnaturally large sphere

What is the sound of the world?
        The globe
creaks            and slides
        as it turns

the map c
                r
                  i
                    n
                       k
                           l
                              e
                                   s         as it unfolds
and all of us.

not remembering where we are
sitting here on this mammoth rotating sphere
rotating so slightly,
it is hardly noticeable

and we humans hum
our voices creating low buzzing
a uniform vibration of sound

the earth is our world, the entire perimeter of our lives

but it is a noun, an object
like moth. or pin. or armchair.

we forget, we live on an object.

that hums, with a human battery